Shield cover

Museum number:
2-4866b
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
(b) Cover. Buckskin with yellow "sun" in center surrounded by 1 green and 2 yellow circles; half of perimeter is red, half is yellow; 2 tassels with alternating bands of black and white beads on one side where yellow and red meet. Poor condition.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Kiowa
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott, Satanta, and Tsa'l-aute
Collection date:
1894
Object type:
ethnography
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shield cover, accession number 2-4866b, described as (b) Cover. Buckskin with yellow "sun" in center surrounded by 1 green and 2 yellow circles; half of perimeter is red, half is yellow; 2 tassels with alternating bands of black and white beads on one side where yellow and red meet. Poor condition.

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