Beaded Leather Pouch
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Jul 1916
name: label: Collector
content: Samuel Ovenshine
label: Donor Name
content: Samuel Ovenshine
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "S. PLAINS TYPE, POSSIBLY KIOWA. - J.C. EWERS 1978"
label: Notes
content: UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFIED AS KIOWA ON THE BASIS OF STYLE.
label: Notes
content: Hourglass-shaped pouch of saddle leather, metal cone fringe at bottom and edge of flap. Lazy stitch beadwork in geometric pattern on front, flap and part of back. Long twisted fringe partially wrapped with metal hung from one corner. Thong handle. Interior stained red. 5.5" (14 cm). Records: Originally catalogued as "Plains, Montana." Changed to Kiowa per Candace Greene, 1991. (C). (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: 13 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Unspecified
label: Culture
content: Kiowa (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 059975
label: USNM Number
content: E291264-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag