The acquisitions in this private collection have been sought out and collected for decades with the goal to preserve unique items that have caught the eye of its purposeful curator. While many private collections remain unseen by the world, this collection’s relics and eccentricities are meant to be discovered and are now being presented to the public.
Medicine Shield
Materials
The shield features a hand carved and bent wood frame with a stretched rawhide top having a rich deep polychrome pigment mineral painted design in red. The center of the shield shows a scalp like braid which is an original very old Buffalo Hair drop having the round scalp like attachment and rich yellow to brown color being pigment mineral dyed. The rawhide stretched top is adhered to the wood frame with rawhide sewn straps and has an early trade canvas handle. The reverse of the shield has a rich dark green coloring with the wood frame being dark red, both pigment mineral polychrome painted.
Description
These scalp like adorned smaller or miniature shields were possibly used by the Roached or Roach Dancers in the Kiowa ceremonies. The front surface of the shield shows a sun like pictorial image radiating from the center braid. The shield may have originally been adorned with raptor feathers for ceremonial importance, but these feathers were potentially removed for legal purposes.
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