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Object Number 05-7-10/64947
Display Title Medicine shield
Descriptions
Object Description Medicine shield with a Piegan’s scalp attached to it. The old inner shield has been removed and new one substituted. On visual inspection a small circular piece of skin appeared to be human scalp with faded black hair. A braid of reddish-brown hair attached to the scalp, about 1 meter in length, appeared to be human hair.
Inventory Description Shield, circular suede over rawhide, painted black bird, beaded scalp ornament.
Classification
  • Accessory
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Crow
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Dimensions Overall: 51.5 x 50 cm (20 1/4 x 19 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Owner Jack-Covers-Up
Intermediary Coffeen-Schnitger Trading Company (?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1905)

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