A Pueblo shield
The thick slightly concave shield of single-ply fire-hardened buffalo hump hide, a natural seam from the animal's back showing vertically down the center, painted with all-native and mineral pigments to depict a pair of horns rising over a central checkered horizon line, diagonal bands marked by chevrons trail off below, within a duotone perimeter, the reverse with a crescent-shaped section of the surface purposefully scraped away at each side, pierced for hide strap handles and attachments.
diameter 22in
diameter 22in
Sold for
US$ 42,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
The Fred Harvey Collection, a tag affixed to the back reading "#411 one of Group of Four Shields HXXXSX", also the inscribed number "33-1350".
Lot heading
Sold by order of the Trustees of the William Rockhill Nelson Trust, Kansas City, Missouri
Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American
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