Shield owned by Yellow Brow and Pups with Cloud and Rain Design Binnaaché [NMAI Cat.117681]
Peggy White WellKnown Buffalo
Description:
Buffalo hide shield with two covers. NMAI catalog record: The black patch represents clouds, the forked red lines rain, the crooked black lines ending in knobs represent bullets glancing off of shield. The eighteen blue black lines with the larger one in the center represent pine trees on the distant mountains. The owl fastened to the center is the war medicine that the original owner used as a head ornament when in battle. A small parfleche case containing owl feathers is attached to the outside cover. Video of Crow elder Tilton Old Bull and Peggy White Wellknown describing the shield in Crow and English languages, NMAI, 2005.
Culture or Community:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Other Forms:
Date of Creation:
Physical Details:
Media/Materials: Buffalo hide/skin, feather/feathers, cotton cloth, paint
Techniques: Stitched, painted
Dimensions: 6.5 x 54 x 55 cm
Catalog Number:
NMAI Cat. #117681
External Links:
https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:NMAI_126362?q=117681.000&record=1&hlterm=117681.000
Provenance:
National Museum of American Indian record: Formerly owned by Yellow Brow (Apsáalooke) and subsequently by Pups (Apsáalooke); collected from Pups in 1923 by anthropologist William (Willem) Wildschut (1883-1955) during fieldwork sponsored by MAI. The NMAI label attached to object states: Buffalo hide shield and two covers. The black patch represents clouds, the forked red lines rain, the crooked black lines ending in knobs represent bullets glancing off of shield. The eighteen blue black lines with the larger one in the center represent pine trees on the distant mountains. The owl fastened to the center is the war medicine that the original owner used as a head ornament when in battle. To the outside cover is fastened a small parfleche case containing owl feathers. Crow Montana 117681. Catalog card states: See Wildschut manuscript, p. 67.
Citation:
Yellow Brow and Pups Shield with Cloud and Rain Design. National Museum of American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (Cat. #117681). 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, Tilton Old Bull Senior
Keywords:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Cloth
Mountain
Parfleche
Sewn
Video
Willem (1883-1955)
Binnaaché
Covers
Owl feathers
Pine trees
Shield
War medicine
Yellow Brow (Apsáalooke)
Buffalo hide
Feathers
Owls
Pups (Apsáalooke)
Stitched
Warfare
material-culture
Bullets
Hide
Paint
Rain
Tape 12
Wildschut