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Collector:
Mr. James Mooney  Search this
Donor Name:
Bureau Of American Ethnology  Search this
Culture:
Kiowa  Search this
Object Type:
Shield Model
Place:
Not Given, Oklahoma, United States, North America
Accession Date:
5 Oct 1897
Notes:
FROM CARD: "WHITE DOVE AND PLUMES. POISONED. THE SHIELD MODEL BEARING THIS NUMBER DOES NOT CARRY A WHITE DOVE AND PLUMES. APPARENTLY WRONGLY NUMBERED BUT APPEARS TO BELONG WITH MONEY'S SHIELD MODEL GROUP."
Painted buckskin cover stretched over a flat metal disk and gathered at back. Upper half green, lower half yellow, black and red lines and dashes across mid-section, two red crosses upper right, two green crosses lower right. 8" (20 cm). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
Listed on page 112 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "History of Fire Making and Illumination".
Record Last Modified:
2 Dec 2020
Specimen Count:
1
Topic:
Ethnology  Search this
Accession Number:
032642
USNM Number:
E178355-0
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Data Source:
NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/359a8f809-fd94-4391-bd4f-24679585113b
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8352578