Owl Shield
Object Details
- Collector
- Mr. James Mooney
- Donor Name
- Bureau Of American Ethnology
- Owl shield model (Sapodal). Yellow with green-speckled figure of owl at center with red heart, wavy lines rising from red horns, figure of pipe at left, upper edge covered by feathered, red wool band with trailing ends. Inside. Associated names: Mamande; Tsonkiada. (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
- Record Last Modified
- 16 Jun 2023
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Kiowa
- Accession Date
- 18 Mar 1904
- Accession Number
- 042431
- USNM Number
- E229847-0
- Object Type
- Shield Model
- Place
- Not Given, Oklahoma, United States, North America
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8366074
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/396e27dae-cd5c-480d-99d5-8b6f560f81eb
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