Red and black Buffalo Shield/binnaaché
Peggy White WellKnown Buffalo
Description:
"Buffalo hide shield decorated with red and black paint, feathers, hoofs, claws and a skin on which is beaded decoration, and cover decorated with a buffalo figure with black paint" NMAI catalog card
Culture or Community:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Other Forms:
Date of Creation:
Physical Details:
Buffalo hide/skin, glass bead/beads; paint; feathers, hoofs; claw
Catalog Number:
NMAI Cat# 214464
External Links:
Provenance:
NMAI catalog 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. Video of Crow elder Tilton Old Bull describing the shield in Crow and English languages, NMAI, 2005. Peggy White Wellknown Buffalo is also present in the video.
Citation:
Black and red buffalo shield. National Museum of American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (Cat. #214464). Audio by Peggy White Wellknown Buffalo and Susie Kelly, 2005.
Creators:
Peggy White Wellknown Buffalo Susie Kelly, Tilton Old Bull Senior
Keywords:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Claw
Field Museum of Natural History
Tilton (Apsáalooke)
Warner
Beadwork
Covers
Hide
Paint
Paul J. (1881-1950)
Binnaaché
Crow language
Hoof
Shield
material-culture
Buffalo hide
Feathers
Old Bull
Warfare