Pabon Lance-Staff
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: Society lance model (Pabon). Pole painted green with four-sided point; incised and painted zigzag lines at one end, other end with wrapped beadwork and feathers below red-painted, forked end. 61.5" (166 cm). This item was found numbered 153007, corresponding to the model of Big Bow's tipi. It is possible that this model represents Big Bow's ceremonial staff, or zebat, but this model is not of the same proportions as the tipi model. It has been identified as 229907, which was missing, by process of elimination. Records: Officer's lance staff of the Koitsenko Warrior's Society. Set upright, point in ground beside tipi door. (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: 5 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E229907-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lance Model