Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of the Roger Williams Park Museum (Providence, Rhode Island); acquired by MAI through an exchange with the Roger Williams Park Museum in 1959.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Mescalero Apache (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Roger Williams Park Museum (Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Roger Williams Park)
- Date created
- 1900-1915
- Object Name
- Dance shield
- Media/Materials
- Deerhide/deerskin
- Techniques
- Painted
- Object Type
- Personal items
