Ceremonial Shield
53-1-24
From: United States of America | South Dakota
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 53-1-24 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sioux |
| Provenience | United States of America | South Dakota |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Deer Hide | Pigment | Feather | Iron |
| Description | Round. Made of hide with hair left on over most of surface (deer hide). Painting around perimeter of hair - 3 figures at top, scallops & lines at sides. 5 feather attached on each side - 2 missing, quills wrapped with green cloth. Single feather attached to netted hoop in upper right of hair; leather thongs attached to netted hoops in lower corners of hair. Mounted on iron ring. |
| Length | 54.3 cm |
| Width | 56.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 56 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Samuel W. Fernberger, 1953 |
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