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Shield

Vanessa Jennings

Kiowa

Leather, paint, ermine

1996.27.0751

On View

Hunting & War

Arthur and Shifra Silberman Collection

This shield is a reproduction of another, earlier one, currently in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute. It was originally thought to belong to Hongea, a Kiowa warrior. We now know it belong to Man-On-Clouds, a Cheyenne warrior.

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