Buffalo Hide Shield with Red and Black Paint Binnaaché
Peggy White WellKnown Buffalo
Description:
Buffalo hide shield decorated red and black paint, feathers, hoofs, claws, and a cover which is decorated with a buffalo figure in black paint. Video of Crow elder Tilton Old Bull describing the shield in Crow language, NMAI, 2005. Peggy White Wellknown Buffalo is also present in the video.
Culture or Community:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Other Forms:
Date of Creation:
Physical Details:
Media/Materials: Buffalo hide/skin, glass bead/beads
Techniques: Painted, bead-wrapped
Dimensions: Unspecified
Catalog Number:
NMAI Cat. #214464
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Provenance:
National Museum of American Indian record: Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Paul J. Warner (1881-1950, an amateur ethnologist employed at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois); purchased by MAI from Paul Warner in 1949. The NMAI label attached to object states: Buffalo hide shield decorated red and black paint, feathers, hoofs, claws and a skin on which is beaded decoration, and cover decorated with buffalo figure in black paint Crow Montana #214464
Citation:
Buffalo Hide Shield with Red and Black Paint. National Museum of American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (Cat. #214464). Video of Tilton Old Bull with Peggy White Wellknown Buffalo filmed by Susie Kelly at NMAI, 2005. Crow Indian Virtual Archive and Museum
Creators:
Peggy White Wellknown Buffalo Susie Kelly
Keywords:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Paint
Paul
Beadwork
Shield
material-culture
Binnaaché
Video
Hide
Warner