Sold for:
$17,220
$17,220
Sioux Painted Buffalo Hide Dance Shield, c. last quarter 19th century, mounted on a wood hoop with a cloth-wrapped wood rod at the back, the front painted green and with a deer head framed by three rectangles, written in pencil on the interior: "Standing Rock Agency, Fort Yates, N.D. July 4, 1900," dia. 19 in. Note: There is a photograph in the National Anthropological Archives of a shield by the same maker.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-02-10
