Powwow Shield#3

Description

This convex shield design is typically made of buffalo hump rawhide. The design of a shell disk with horsehair tassels, coup stripes with a turtle and medicine symbol painted on it was obtained in the Plains Indian Warrior’s vision quest. It is decorated with four eagle wing feathers and one trade cloth tassel, decorated with fringe and brass tacks hanging on the bottom. A long felt strip wraps the top and one side as well as hanging down below the shield. This is one of the shields visable in the large 1/4 life-size one-of-a-kind works Allen and Patty created called “Prairie Edge Powwow”. “Prairie Edge Powwow” is permentaly on display at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. There are also photos and prints you can see on our website.

Allen or Patty Eckman

Size: 5″x 7″x .5″ relief

Edition of 100 signed and numbered