Bird Shield
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Mar 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Bird shield model (Guato). White center field with green sides, pipe, bullet marks, and spotted rectangle in central field, birds, arrows and bullet marks in side fields, upper edge covered by red wool band with feathers, locks of hair, and white fur strips. Inside. See 229891 for another model of this shield. Records: Original pattern made and carried by Adalboingyato. He died in 1870. The bird shield is one of the most noted in the Kiowa tribe and was carried at various times by thirty different warriors from 1838 to 1892 when the last remaining bird shield was buried by its owner in his son's grave. Nine of the thirty warriors who carried this shield were killed in battle. (C). Associated names: Adalboingyato. (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 042431
label: USNM Number
content: E229818-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model