Backrest for Tipi Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: E152007-0: Tipi model. Hide cover painted blue with red line, green Maltese cross and crescent at back, red lines with green dots outlined in blue and red down sides, horsehair, and feather pendants. Blue hide door. 61.5" (166 cm). E152007-1: Backrest model. Trapezoid of slender peeled sticks strung on sinew. Edged on upper third with hide strips beaded in square design; forked hide hanging strap at top attached to wooden tripod. Two poles attached to back of lower two thirds, on which bed rests when erected. 34" (86 cm). See E229907 for additional item associated with this record. Records: Upon the inside is a bed and a pot hanger. E153007-2: Tipi model, with hide door. This is an exact model of the tipi of "Big Bow," one of the principal chiefs of the Kiowa. (C). Associated names: Zebaedal. (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: 26 May 2020
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: E153007-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Backrest Model