Medicine Brush
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: Medicine brush (Padai). Two curls of horsehair, one dyed blue the other red at tip, upper ends encased in hide covered with gourd stitch. 15.5" (39 cm). Records: Used as brush or sprinkler by Buffalo Doctors when treating patients. (T, 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: 6 Mar 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: 043633
label: USNM Number
content: E233144-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Aspergill