Shield
- Museum number:
- 7-1091
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21070001091
- Alternate number:
- 71 (previous number (donor's original number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.71
- Description:
- Wooden shield, Empire, with Medusa (gorgon) head; oval shaped; gold and blue colored; length 25 1/2 in, width 14 1/2 in
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Sweden
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Roseuberg; Sweden
- Culture or time period:
- Swedish
- Collector:
- Axel O. Lindstrom
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Shields (armor)
- Accession date:
- February 12, 1903
- Department:
- Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
- Legacy documentation:
-