[Camp circle diagrams]
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content: MS 2538 James Mooney notes and drawings on Cheyenne and Kiowa heraldry (part)

MS 3298 James Mooney diagram of Kiowa camp circle

Sun Dance Camp Circle of the Kiowa and Apache Indians during the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867

NAA MS 245079

NAA INV 08599900

USNM Accession 43431
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 / Notes and drawings organized by tribe / Kiowa and Kiowa Apache / Heraldry of the Indian Tribes exhibit
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1896-1904
container: label: Container
content: Map-folder 5
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The 1896 drawing was transferred from Bureau of American Ethnology to the United States National Museum through W. H. Holmes on March 18, 1904 (USNM Accession  42,431).  It was subsequently transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in 1969.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains four (4) drawings by Mooney depicting the arrangement of tipis and other structures:

(1) "Sun Dance Camp Circle of the Kiowa and Apache Indians; Date: Medicin [sic] Lodge Treaty 1867," dated 1896. The drawing depicts 238 numbered tipis arranged for the 1867 Sun Dance encampment of the Kiowa and represents Mooney's original vision of the Kiowa model tipi exhibit at Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904. The exhibit as depicted in the drawing was not completed, and a scaled-down version was presented at the Exposition.  

(2) A drawing dated 1904 depicting the arrangement of tipis and other structures during the Sun Dance and other tribal gatherings in the period 1865-1875.  The drawing was displayed at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904.

(3) An undated drawing giving the location of each band within the circle along with names of prominent Kiowa men. 

(4) An undated drawing including notes on the placement of the model tipis to be used for exhibition.