Lot 111

Plains Buffalo Polychrome Painted Dance Shield

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

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The lot features an early Buffalo polychrome painted dance shield which came off the Crow Reservation in Montana. The shield shows a wetted and stretched parfleche rawhide with bent wood frame that is rawhide sewn. The front shows a polychrome mineral pigment painted pattern showing a horned Buffalo figure in black at the center with red eyes being split and running down the center. The outside shows a red and black border. The top shows four squiggly lines and the base shows four spots. The figure has two arms with hooves at the end also showing squiggly lines. At the top quarter shows two rolled copper jingle cones with Buffalo hair drops having four-point red and black shield symbols. The shield has a dark worn coloring and patina. The back shows the original rawhide ties. Provenance: From an iconic Billings, Montana collection of American Indian antiquities. Measures 15.5” in diameter.
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