Shield
Unknown people (Plains)
Plains
collected before 1926
Iron, cloth, cotton, paint
Overall: 18 1/8 in. (46 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Newton Buckner
46.10.10774
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Armament
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Mortimer Norton Buckner (1873-1942), Greenwich, Connecticut, before 1926; bequeathed to his son, Newton Buckner (1913-2005), Greenwich, Connecticut, about 1942; [delivered tro Dartmouth College by Newton Buckner's father-in-law, John Carleton Sterling (1888-1964), Class of 1911]; given to present colllection, 1946.
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