A Pueblo shield


Of thick fire-hardened buffalo hump hide, painted with mineral pigments to show a banded circular design bisected by a central checkered horizon line, the upper hemisphere aligning a pair of ring-shaped motifs, peaked elements and smaller orbs about the lower perimeter, pierced for hide neck sling, hand strap and thong attachments, native repairs scattered about the body.diameter 22in
|An old, partly legible label affixed to the back, reading "Collection, #40, J.P. 2/13/8..."See Wright, Barton, Pueblo Shields, From the Fred Harvey Fine Arts Collection, 1976, Northland Press/Heard Museum, for a discussion of the evolution in construction and design of nearly thirty shields collected from various Pueblos around the same period as the present lot