Treaty Medal, From A Grave
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Dec 1904
label: Collection Date
content: 1903
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "U.S. TREATY MEDAL OF FORT HARMON TREATY, 1789. TAKEN BY JAMES MOONEY IN 1903 FROM THE GRAVE OF A YOUNG KIOWA BURIED ABOUT 1890. THE TREATY WAS MADE IN OHIO WITH A NUMBER OF EASTERN TRIBES, AND THE MEDAL EVIDENTLY CAME FROM SOME ONE OF THEM TO THE KIOWAS. MATERIAL PEWTER, I.E., LEAD HARDENED WITH ZINC MIXTURE. ... [CONTINUED, SEE CARD]."
label: Notes
content: Pewter disk. Likeness of George Washington on one side, clasped hands and crossed tomahawks on the other. Dated 1789. Fragment of red silk ribbon. 2.5" (6 cm). Records: U.S. Treaty Medal of Ft. Harman Treaty, 1789. Taken by Mooney in 1903 from the grave of a young Kiowa buried about 1890. The treaty was made in Ohio with a number of Eastern tribes and the medal evidently came from some of them to the Kiowa. (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: Record Last Modified
content: 20 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma / Ohio, 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: E233073-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Medal