Breastplate
- Date created
- 1880-1900
- Culture/People
- Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
- Collector
- Charles Herbert Townsend (Little Man on the Big Horse), Non-Indian, 1871-1956
- Previous owner
- John Walter Townsend, Non-Indian, 1907-1987
- Petrus Enoch Townsend, Non-Indian
- Donor
- Petrus Enoch Townsend, Non-Indian
- Burt Townsend, Non-Indian
- Lawrence Edward Townsend, Non-Indian, 1934-1984
- Mary Townsend Wallace, Non-Indian
- Paul W. Townsend, Non-Indian, 1937-1996
- Honoree
- Charles Herbert Townsend (Little Man on the Big Horse), Non-Indian, 1871-1956
- Collection History
- Collected in the early 1900s by Charles Herbert Townsend (1871-1956), who was called "Little Man on a Big Horse" by local Native people; inherited by his son John Walter Townsend (1907-1987) and subsequently by John Townsend's son Petrus Enoch Townsend; donated to NMAI in 2002 in memory of Charles Herbert Townsend, the "Little Man on a Big Horse," by his grandchildren: Petrus Enoch Townsend, Lawrence Edward Townsend (1934-1984), Mary Townsend Wallace, Paul W. Townsend (1937-1996), and Burt Townsend.
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- Place
- Pine Ridge Reservation; Jackson County, Oglala Lakota County; South Dakota; USA
- See related items
- Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 25/9607
- Barcode
- 259607.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Breastplate
- Media/Materials
- Cowrie shell/shells, glass bead/beads, hide, hide thong/babiche
- Techniques
- Strung, stitched
- Dimensions
- 59.5 x 15 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_275692