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Medicine shield
Object Number 05-7-10/64948
Display Title Medicine shield
Descriptions
Inventory Description Round shield, rawhide and suede, painted brown and green, bird head and feathers
Classification
  • Accessory
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Crow
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Materials Leather, Rawhide, Feather, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 51 x 50.5 cm (20 1/16 x 19 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 64948
Provenance
Owner Buffalo Calf
Intermediary Coffeen-Schnitger Trading Company
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1905)

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