LETTERS

THE ACOMA SHIELD

he saga of the disappearance and return of one of the Pueblo of Acoma’s six stolen shields was as intriguing as it was inspirational, but it also leaves troubling questions (“The Return,” August 2020). The article’s lack of any picture of this recovered shield struck me as particularly odd. The article also revealed that the shield’s last “owner” had, at the request of an auction house in France, added a fake element to it, admitting that “he had turkey feathers dyed to look like eagles’ and wove them into the shield himself.”