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Buffalo Calf's Painted Medicine Shield
Object Number 2004.24.32868i
Display Title Buffalo Calf's Painted Medicine Shield
Descriptions
Object Description Painted shield Crow
Keywords
  • Weaponry and Warfare
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Shield
Department Photographic
Date 1992
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Crow
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Montana
Materials Negative, black and white

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