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: Turtle tipi model (Tonakaido). White with rainbow bands in green, yellow, red and blue near bottom and top, yellow below lower rainbow, green above upper. Red crescent at top, composite figure of turtle and thunderbird at center back with yellow pipe above right wing, red above left, black animals on each side near door. Horsehair tuft at center back. Green painted hide door. 59" (150 cm). Records: Dreamed by Gukiati (alias Adatedalanti, known as Tonakai, or Turtle, or Wrinkled Tail). He was a medicine man of the Kogui band who formed a group of sixteen disciples to practice turtle medicine. On the lower "rainbow" is a black and yellow beaver. On the lower part of the body is a combination thunderbird and turtle. Turtle medicine hung on a pole behind the tipi. Informants: Manpe, Haba, Hangun. Model by Manpe. Illustrated in Ewers 1978: 27. (C). Associated names: Gukiati; Hanpe; Haba; Hangun. (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: E245019-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi Model