Tipi Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Mar 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Buffalo Track tipi model. Buckskin cover painted on the exterior. Yellow with narrow white band at bottom and ears. Green dot at center top, seven vertical rows of paired green crescents. Horsehair tuft at back, yarn fringe at tips of ears. Red wool door. Set of poles. 62" (158 cm). Records: Double rows of green crescents arranged in pairs are symbolic of buffalo tracks. The back has the usual buffalo tail pendant with green sun at the crossing of the poles. This tipi was set up in the southwest quarter of the camp circle. Patadal died about 1898. Illustrated in Ewers 1986: 24. (C). Associated names: Patadal. (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: 7 Jul 2021
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: 042431
label: USNM Number
content: E229893-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi Model