Medicine Bow
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Single curved stave made of rib bone, strung with twisted sinew. 15" (38 cm). Records: Employed in one case to shoot an arrow of defiance toward a spirit in the clouds who had caused the buffalo hunt to be unsuccessful. (L). (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.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kiowa And Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025718
label: USNM Number
content: E152989-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow