The collection consists of a calendar with 77 entries drawn on a piece of coarse cotton cloth with one selvedge edge and one edge machine hemmed. The entries begin near one end of the strip and move from left to right in a staggered linear sequence, stopping well short of the opposite end. Summer and winter entries alternate, with the register of summer entries drawn above the register of winter entries. A green forked pole accompanies pictures for summers when the Medicine Lodge ceremony was held. A yellow diamond outlined in blue indicates winter seasons. The calendar covers the period between 1862 and 1901. No information is known about the original production of this calendar.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2002-28
Genre/Form:
Works of art
Calendars
Pictographs
Citation:
MS 2002-28 Kiowa calendar on canvas, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Culturas visuales indígenas y las prácticas estéticas en las Américas desde la antigüedad hasta el presente = Indigenous visual cultures and aesthetic practices in the Americas' past and present Sanja Savkić (edition) en colaboración con Hannah Baader
Title:
Indigenous visual cultures and aesthetic practices in the Americas' past and present
