Shield

38562A

From: Montana | Crow Agency

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 38562A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Crow (Culture)
Provenience Montana | Crow Agency
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buffalo Hide | Pigment
Description

Buffalo hide shield (A) from "Boy that Grabs" with cover (B). Painted with zigzags in red and green with dots around the edge. Reverse has a skin strap with cut fringe. Cover is skin with a central design of a painted bird with radiating green lines around the edge and a red zigzag along one side. Three pendants attached. One is a buckskin-wrapped hoop with beads on red fabric, a button and a segment of black hair. The second pendant is buckskin wrapped around an oblong object with pink, light and dark blue and green beads wrapped around with buckskin fringe below. The third pendant is a section of skin with fur. Drawstring on back of cover.

Credit Line Pan-American Exposition; Wanamaker Expedition / R. Stewart Culin, 1901

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