Examples of Plains Shields by Native Arts Trading & "DOW HADAWAY" - Shawnee

Shields used by Native American Indians in battle and also decorated with anything that would add power to the wearer. A shield was very important in that it would sometimes be the first thing an enemy would see and it needed to be very powerful to frighten off anyone that would do harm.

PLAINS INDIAN WAR SHIELDS

There were two types of shields used by the Plains Indian. The shield made from the hump or the rump of the buffalo and then covered with a soft skin shield cover, or the other type of shield made of buffalo rawhide but supported with a handmade wooden hoop. We are offering both options.

Shield with handmade wooden hoop $495

Buffalo rump / hump shield $525 with buffalo or deer skin cover $525, or both $1050 (shield painted and cover painted)
Sioux shield
Rain In The Face
Rain in the Face (SIOUX) replica shield from b & w photograph

Here is a shield cover made of brain tanned buffalo and hard shield made from buffalo rawhide

This shield is based the shield cover is based on a museum replica Oglala Sioux shield but have incorporated the clients personal medicine on the shield and shield cover.
Crow shield
Here is a shield cover (made of brain tanned buffalo ) based on Rain in the Face's shield, but we have changed the Thunderbird / Eagle as per the clients request and added a few items that the client also wanted on the shield.
Sioux shield
Sioux shield
Crow shield replica - circa mid 19th century (with human hair locks) - New Orleans Museum, Louisiana
Lakota Sioux shield

Replica SIOUX brain tan buffalo soft cover featuring either human or horse hair, otter and coyote fur. Painted with earth pigment paints.

Inspired by Rain in the Face's (Lakota Sioux) shield cover (left), Hard buffalo rawhide shield based on a Hidatsa museum shield (right)
Plains Indian shield
Native American shield

Lakota Sioux Thunderbird War shield (based on a museum example)

Native American shield
Plains buffalo hump / rump shield featuring a bear - painted with clay paints, beads, Eagle fluffs, hide glue, sinew, etc.
CHIEF LITTLE ROCK
Repro 1868
Buffalo hump shield
American Indian shield
Plains Indian shield
North American Indian Shield
buffalo rump / hump shield

Four Directions ca. 1873

hand made wooden hoop, rawhide, trade cloth, deer skin, hawk bells, etc.

DRAGONFLY
Repro 1877
Black War Bonnet ca 1863

NATIVE ARTS Trading
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by Auchenblae, Aberdeenshire AB30 1TR
Scotland
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