TRIBAL AFFILIATION OF SHIELD PETROGLYPHS FROM THE BLACK-HILLS AND CAVE-HILLS

Authors
SUNDSTROM L KEYSER JD
Citation
L. Sundstrom et Jd. Keyser, TRIBAL AFFILIATION OF SHIELD PETROGLYPHS FROM THE BLACK-HILLS AND CAVE-HILLS, Plains Anthropologist, 43(165), 1998, pp. 225-238
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Anthropology
Journal title
Plains Anthropologist → ACNP
ISSN journal
00320447
Volume
43
Issue
165
Year of publication
1998
Pages
225 - 238
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-0447(1998)43:165<225:TAOSPF>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
This study compares 22 shield designs from Black Hills and Cave Hills rock art with 314 ethnographically recorded shield designs. Based on t hese comparisons, II of the petroglyphs were identified as Cheyenne, t wo as possibly Cheyenne, one as Lakota or Cheyenne, and one as either Cheyenne or Crow. The seven remaining designs could not be assigned a cultural affiliation.