Shield
Reputed to have belonged to Cochise, a chief of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache and the leader of an uprising that began in 1861. Documentation is said to have existed as a letter, which no longer exists. Motifs are also questionable.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 80/1931/131
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Arms and armour
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Material
- deer hidebuffalo hidewoodgrasshair on buffalo skin
- Common Name
- shield
- Simple Name
- shield
- Period Classification
- 19th century
- Production Country
- United States of America
- Production Year High
- 1889
