Toilet Bag
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: [Describing all parts in E152889-0 through -3:] Four pouches of re-used saddle leather. 1. Yellow painted fringe on flap and bottom, lower fringe twisted. Overlay beadwork on front and flap in abstract designs. Leather strap. 10" (25 cm) 2. Rounded extension at bottom, blue painted fringe on flap and bottom. Overlay beadwork on front and flap with diamond-encircled designs. Studded with metal buttons. Thong handle. 14" (36 cm) 3. Blue fringe on flap and bottom. Overlay beadwork in abstract floral design on front and flap. Metal button on flap. Thong handle. 11" (28 cm) 4. Pointed bottom, fringe on flap, twisted fringe on bottom. Overlay beadwork in abstract design on front and flap. Thong handle. 9" (23 cm). Records: These pouches are made to hold paint, looking glass, hair stick, mescal feathers, spare jewelry, etc. They are hung on the inside of the tipi. (C, 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: E152889-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag