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Request in my e-mail. Can you help?
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I DON'T HAVE MUCH IN THIS FIELD BUT HERE IS A PICTURE WITH SOME AZTEC SHIELDS AND REGALIA AND TWO PICTURES FRONT AND BACK IT IS 20 IN. IN DIA. AND SAID TO BE 20 TH. CENTURY. AND ONE PICTURE OF A CHEYENE SHIELD. PERHAPS I CAN FIND SOMETHING ELSE LATER.
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There is stable exhibition of America´s art in Naprstek museum in Prague, incl. nice shields (but I think mostly north American). If they do not mind making photos, I could try, but I think they are very strickt there
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Tukano people NW Brazil.
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Hi Lee,
Enclosed please find a few photos from Naprstek Museum permanent exhibiton - only one shield, nevertheless the other pictures may contain some inspiration, too (?). There is:No 2 - Teton/Lakota (Sioux), 2nd half of 19 century, 3 - woman´s leather blouse, Kiowa, Southern Plains, 4 - wolf mask (I am not sure if Tlingit Alaska or Noo-ohah-nuulth Vancouver Island), 1909, 5 - bows (Canada ?, I forgot the tribe), 6 - Navajo, before 1931, 7 - gunstock club + pipe tomahawk, Dakota (Santee Sioux), Minesota, 1859, 8 - ball headed club, also Santee Sioux 1859, 9 - shield Cheyenne, Omaha, before 1880, 10 - eagle war bonnet, Western Sioux - Lakota, 1893, 11 - bonnet from virgin forest South America (I forgot tribe), 12 - Bororo tribe Regards, Martin |
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second half
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TWO PICTURES OF A CHIPPAWA SHIELD 16.5 INCH IN DIAMETER, FRONT AND BACK. ONE PICTURE OF A CROW SPIRIT SHIELD SIX AND THREE QUARTER INCHES IN DIA. THESE WERE WORN AS CHARMS AND PROTECTION NOT USED AS A WAR SHIELD.
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