Shield

Object Number:	97-84-2204
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Pueblo San Ildefonso
Provenience:	New Mexico San Ildefonso Pueblo
Culture Area:	Southwest Culture Area
Section:	American
Materials:	Hide Pigment Feather
Outside Diameter:	48.5 cm
Credit Line:	Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number:	L-84-2204 - Old Museum Number 17177 - ANSP Number II 542 - Gottschall Number

Description

Rawhide painted with red and green designs mostly obliterated. Forty-nine small eagle feathers.

Bibliography:

[Book] Gottschall, Amos H. 1909. Priced and Descriptive Catalogue of the Utensils, Implements, Weapons, Ornaments, Etc., of the Indians, Mound Builders, Cliff Dwellers: Typical Collections No. 2.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: II 542