Shield owned by Yellow Brow and Pups with Cloud and Rain Design Binnaaché [NMAI Cat.117681]

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.