Buffalo Medicine
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Jun 1897
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ACCESSION PAPERS CONTAIN ONLY A SLIP READING AS FOLLOWS, IN MOONEY'S HAND: "KIOWA. PART OF THE "BUFFALO MEDICIN" (SIC) FORMERLY BELONGING TO SET'KONKZA="BLACK BEAR" OF THE BUFFALO SHIELD-(CONSISTS OF A CONCRETION OF BUFFALO HAIR FROM THE BUFFALO'S STOMACH, & MATTED HAIR FROM THE BUFFALO'S THROAT WITH 2 EAGLE FEATHERS (SIC), ALL SMEARD WITH INDIAN RED PAINT) JAMES MOONEY 1896."
label: Notes
content: Buffalo medicine. Bunch of matted buffalo hair stained with red paint to which are tied two eagle feathers, also painted red. 9" (23 cm). Records: Part of the "Buffalo Medicine." Consists of a concretion of buffalo hair from the buffalo's stomach, matted hair from the buffalo's throat and two eagle feathers, all smeared with Indian red paint. (A, C). Associated names: Setkonkya. (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: 1 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma, 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: 032272
label: USNM Number
content: E176690-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Medicine Object