Fire Pouch
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: C. 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Rounded bag of saddle leather with native tanned hide gusset between front and back. Flap completely covered in overlay beadwork with hand motif on cover. Pairs of thongs with wrapped beadwork and large beads hung from sides and bottom. Two belt loops on back. Strike-a-light missing. 5" (13 cm). Records: Fire pouches are worn on the belt. When complete they contain flint, steel and tinder. (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: 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: E152890-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Bag