Kiowa heraldry, Mooney [field ledger]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2531 Vol. 1 James Mooney and Silver Horn notebook on Kiowa Heraldry

MS 2531-01 000
label: Conservation
content: The ledger book was disbound, laminated, and rebound by the BAE at an unknown date (circa 1960s). The binding was removed during processing in 2025.
name: label: Artist
content: Silver Horn, 1860-1940
label: Collection Creator
content: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
creator: label: Artist
content: Silver Horn, 1860-1940
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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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: circa 1897-1904
container: label: Container
content: Box 17, Folder 2-7
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A ledger book, now disbound, containing information about and drawings of Kiowa tipis and shields. 

The tipis include the following: the Adalsedalte Doguadal or Adalsedalti's Red Tipi, so called to distinguish it from Settainte's Red Tipi; the Dokonkya or Black Tipi; Ginapaingya's Black Tipi; the Sekondoguat or Sausage Picture Tipi; Tabia's Dotakon or Black Ear Tipi; Dohasan's Coup Picture Tipi; Dohasan's Yellow Tipi, so called to distinguish it from the Guipago Doguako (Lone Wolfs Yellow Tipi); the Tondoguat or Picture Tail Tipi of Dasai, Taaikina, and Zepkoette; the Piadiadoguat or Porcupine Picture Tipi of Bohonkonkya and Apenguadal; the Red Tipi of Settainte or the Settainte Doguadal, so called to distinguish it from Adalsedalti's Red Tipi; the Ayadoguat or Fringed Tipi of Aisiai; the Doaya or Fringed Tipi of Tanguadalde; the Tsendoguat or Horse Picture Tipi of Settainpe; Mamande's or Screaming Above's tipi; the Tandoguat or Star Picture Tipi of Atomkoma; and the Tandoguat or Star Picture Tipi of Ankonkya and Adaltonedal. The shields include the following: the Cow Shield of Guikati and the variant of this shield owned by White Horse; the Cow Shield of Kyunitaidi or Gakonti; the shield of Settainpe or Crazy Bear; and Tenedaidi or Bird Chiefs Shield. 

The notebook also includes some genealogical information on Adalboingyato and Gapiataan (who shared a grandfather), brief information about a Mexican family captured by the Kiowa, and notes on the Kiowa buffalo medicine doctors and how the medicine practice began.

The title "Kiowa Heraldry, Mooney, 1897," was printed by hand on the spine of the original binding.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: For a partial transcript of this ledger book, see "Hackett/Lowendorf transcription of MS 2531, Kiowa Heraldry Notebook" in James Mooney Collection Supplement Files, NAA Reading Room.