Tongs
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: Two forked wooden sticks. 14.25" (36 cm). Records: Used to handle hot stones in the sweat-house. Red hot stones are taken from the fire and placed in the house. Water is poured over them in order to produce steam, in which the patient sits until he is in a reeking sweat. Illustrated in: USNM Bulletin 141, p. 110, pl. 85, figs. 4, 5. (C, L). (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: 2
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: E153000-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tongs