Porcupine 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: Buckskin cover painted on exterior. White with red band at bottom and ears flanked by blue line. Row of blue porcupines around bottom, larger porcupine positioned vertically on back center. Horsehair tuft at back. White hide door. Set of poles. 62" (157 cm). Records: Above the base line is a row of dark blue porcupines, those on the left being the males and those on the south side, females. At back is a single large male holding in his forepaws an arrow directed toward his tent. The green-lined open space from the head downward represents the connection line between the throat and the heart. The porcupine itself is here symbolic of the sun. Above the door is fastened a miniature model of the parfleche case in which were contained the insignia of the warrior society to which the owner belonged, with his pipestem on the outside, the pipe being supposed to be inside. Model by Apiatan, son of Apenguadal. Illustrated in Ewers 1978: 21. (C). Associated names: Apenguadal; Apiatan. (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: E229904-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi Model