Shawl And Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Feb 2017
label: Collection Date
content: 1993
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Candace S. Greene
label: Collector
content: Dr. Michael Jordan
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Information from Dr. Candace Greene: "I received this shawl together with the piece of polyester double knit cloth in 1993 during the Kiowa Black Leggings Society Memorial Day dance held at the Indian City dance grounds outside of Anadarko, Oklahoma. I attended the dance with Florene Whitehorse Taylor and her brother Roland Whitehorse, who was a member of the Black Leggings, or Tonkongia Society, and I sat with the extended Whitehorse family during the dance. During the dance, I made a courtesy visit to the camp of Vanessa Paukeigope Morgan (later Jennings), a Kiowa woman whom I knew from my research work. We visited briefly. Then Vanessa opened a trunk she had with her and pulled out the shawl and the cloth, grabbed me by the arm and pulled me out onto the dance ground where Black Leggings dancers were assembled. She handed the items to two older gentlemen there and hurried off to speak to the emcee. The emcee announced to the crowd that Vanessa wished to honor two of her "grandfathers" who were presenting gifts to me, a visiting anthropologist who was doing research on Kiowa art by another of her "grandfathers" Haungooah, or Silver Horn. One of the two gentlemen (whose name I did not get) then wrapped the fabric around my shoulders, after which the other (David Paddlety) placed the shawl over it. My sense was that Vanessa used the shawl giving to: - honor her older relatives - demonstrate proper Kiowa behavior of ritual gifting as a means of honoring - respectfully acknowledge a visiting scholar The shawl is a plain one, fringed but without additional decoration. The length of yard goods is unworked, but the various colors coordinate pleasantly with the aqua shawl. It is a type of patterned double knit that has not been in general use since the 1970s. I [Candace Greene] consider that the two items form a combined object. The cloth would never have circulated independently. For years, I kept the shawl and fabric hung over the back of a chair in my office. Indian people from throughout the Plains who visited my office often commented with pleasure and approval that I had a shawl. In 2007 a damaged sprinkler pipe sprayed dirty, rusty water all over the shawl. I washed it, but not all the stains came out and the fringe unraveled some."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Anadarko, Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2076808
label: USNM Number
content: E434681-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dance Garment / Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - 1 Of 2
content: 152 cm
label: Width - 1 Of 2
content: 176 cm
label: Length - 2 Of 2
content: 83 cm
label: Width - 2 Of 2
content: 181 cm