Shield
| Object Number: | 21390 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Sioux (uncertain) |
| Provenience: | Plains (Culture Area) |
| Culture Area: | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Skin Feather Hair |
| Length: | 48 cm |
| Width: | 10 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 44.8 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, 1898 |
Description
Tanned buffalo hide with a cover of buckskin. Ornamented with pendant eagle feathers and deer tails and painted half yellow and half white. Painted design on the yellow half of a red sun surrounded by fourteen sets of parallel red lines and a red star with a yellow center. A yellow star outlined in red and with a red center is painted on the white half. An 8.5 inch bone whistle is attached with a thong.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Plains Gallery ( Apr 1986 - Jun 1999) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| American Indian Life 1776-1976 ( Dec 1976 - 1978) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Book] 1976. American Indian Life: 1776-1976.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 18 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] Hall, Henry U. 1926. "Some Shields of the Plains and Southwest". The Museum Journal. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 17. no. 1. pg. 36-61 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 44, fig. 5; p. 45, fig. 6 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] 1899. "Collections and Publications". Bulletin of the Free Museum of Science and Art. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania. Vol. II. no. No. 1. pg. 39-50 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 39-40 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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