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: Black Ear tipi model. White with red band at bottom flanked by blue line, blue section at top including ears. Green dot at top center, green domesticated bull with heartline, blue effusion from mouth and yellow-headed bird on back facing door on right side, blue buffalo bull with red heartline and yellow-breasted bird on back on left side. Horsehair pendant on back, bundle of hoof pendants tied inside on left. Unpainted hide door. 63" (160 cm). Records: Mamande acquired medicine power in a dream in 1869, as a result of which he originated this tipi. Informants: Setkopti, Guiananti, Tsonkiada, Haba. Model by Botati (Pakasa). Illustrated in Ewers 1978: 33. (C). Associated names: Mamande; Setkopti; Guiananti; Tsonkiada; haba; Botati. (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: E245015-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi Model