Shield

Unknown people (Plains)
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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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