Feather Dart Game 1 Set 4
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: Ice darts (Gonatonkia). Four similar specimens, one incomplete. Short section of rib bone pointed at one end, decorated in one instance with zigzag and triangle. Blunt end holds two sticks inserted into shafts of cut feathers. Two sticks are painted red and small additional feathers are bound on with sinew. Approx. 19" (48 cm). Records: Usually played by two contestants with four or five bones in the set. (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: Notes
content: For similiar object see E152906, and Fig. 532, described p. 413, in "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, BAE 24th Annual Report, in section on snowsnake game, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27736620 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
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: E233082-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game