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ID: 300438464
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300438464

 

Record Type: concept
medicine shields (shields (armor), <armor by form>, ... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Shields made by Plains Native North Americans, especially in Lakota, Comanche, and Crow (Apsáalooke) communities. Commonly made of animal hide and decorated with painted religious iconography. Feathers, fur, and body parts of animals were also often sewn into the shield, relating to different spiritual practices and one's own personal identity.
 
Terms:
medicine shields (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,PN)
medicine shield (C,U,English,AD,U,SN)
shields, medicine (C,U,English,UF,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.TE

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Objects Facet
Objects Facet
Hierarchy of Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
.... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of Costume (hierarchy name)
........ Costume (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of costume (mode of fashion)
............ costume (mode of fashion) (G)
Hierarchy of <costume by function>
................ <costume by function> (G)
Hierarchy of protective wear
.................... protective wear (G)
Hierarchy of armor (protective wear)
........................ armor (protective wear) (G)
Hierarchy of <armor by form>
............................ <armor by form> (G)
Hierarchy of shields (armor)
................................ shields (armor) (G)
Hierarchy of medicine shields
.................................... medicine shields (G)

Related concepts:
reflect/produced by ....  Plains Indian
....................................  (Native North American, Native American, ... Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) [300252485]

Sources and Contributors:
medicine shield............  [VP]
.............................  National Museum of the American Indian (2005-) "medicine shield," accessed 15 January 2020, "A Song for the Horse Nation,"
medicine shields............  [VP Preferred]
.............................  Berlo, Spirit Horses and Thunder Beings (1996) 201; accessed 15 January 2020
.............................  National Museum of the American Indian (2005-) "medicine shield," accessed 15 January 2020, "A Song for the Horse Nation,"
.............................  Pitt Rivers Museum [online] (2014-). "medicine shield," accessed 15 January 2020, "Arms and Armour,"
shields, medicine............  [VP]
................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
 
Subject: .....  [VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Berlo, Spirit Horses and Thunder Beings (1996) 201; accessed 15 January 2020
.......... National Museum of the American Indian (2005-) accessed 15 January 2020, "A Song for the Horse Nation,"
.......... Pitt Rivers Museum [online] (2014-). accessed 15 January 2020, "Arms and Armour,"

 

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