Paint Sticks
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Dec 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Forty-four wooden sticks, three wrapped with buckskin, two with cloth, with various pointed and blunt ends, stained with colors. One stripped quill with sharpened end. approx. 2.5" (6 cm) to 5.5" (14 cm). Records: Used by Mooney's Indian informants for painting the model tipis and shields. (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: 12 Jan 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 45
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: 043633
label: USNM Number
content: E233150-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Paint Stick