[Kiowa field ledger]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2531 Vol. 6 James Mooney Kiowa Notebook

MS 2531-06 000
label: Conservation
content: The notebook was disbound, laminated, and rebound by the BAE at an unknown date (circa 1960s). The binding was removed during processing in 2025.
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
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content: James Mooney collection
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content: James Mooney collection / Series 3: Kiowa and Southern Plains / 3.2: Heraldry / Field notebooks
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1903-1906
container: label: Container
content: Box 20, Folder 1-13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of a ledger book, now disbound, containing notes on Kiowa shields, tipis, individuals, military societies, and stories. 

The shields include the following: Buffalo Shields, including those of Pabedaloka, Gutsokoma, Tsonetati, and Taokina; the Taime and other shields set up during the annual Kiowa Sun Dance; a variant of the Lone Wolf Panther Shield; Guihalanti's Shield; Mamande's Owl Shield; the Bird Shields; the Onhati or Bear Shields; the Ainde Shield of Aintsedalti; the Tonkan Shield; the Konadalti or Black Hair Shields; the Dog Shield of Kaikodalti; the shield that Pagodel made for his son Ongati; Setdayati's Shield; the Snake Shield made by Guitonkagya; the Paakanti Shield; the Kaikohodal Shield of Tenetaide; the Kadombitsonhi Shield of Okankina; the Yellow Child Shield; the Kopdom Shield; the Dainpe Shield; the Tonantainti Shield of Okankina; the Lone Kiowa Shield; the Tontalati Shield; the Tonpayiayia Shield; the Tedalti Shields; the Doodalti Shield; the Polanyi Shield; the Esikwita Shield of Hoantalyi; the Tepdea Shield; the Akopti Shield; the Tsonetati Shield, acquired from Akaikina; the shields of Adalpaguitain; the Hanpogyato or Aan Shields; the Akodalti Shield; and the Moon Shield of Konati (Konabiati).

The volume also includes information on the Onhati or Bear Tipis and the Battle Tipi.

Also present are data on kinship and intrafamilial responsibilities as well as biographical information on the following people or their families: Paul Setkopte, also listed as Paul Tsaitkopeta; Henry Poolaw; James Waldo; Zebataiti; Pagodoguatal; an Arikara who joined the Kiowas; Taguatgyako; Hunting Horse; Gungiani; Settainte; Old Man Of The Red Tipi; Hangun; Tonkinahi; Haba; Setangya III; Guiyananti II; and Tahbonemah. 

The volume also includes information on the following Kiowa societies: Tonkonko, Tsentanma, Ohomo, Yapahe, Koitsen, and Tainpeko. 

Notes about the Kiowa trickster Sindi [Saynday] appear with the following stories: "How Sindi Found the Buffalo"; "Sindi and the Ants and Immortality"; "Sindi and the Prairie Dogs"; "Sindi and the Bear"; "Sindi and the White Man"; "Sindi and the Antelope"; "Sindi and the Turkey"; and "Sindi and the Pemmican."