Game Ring
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: C. 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Miniature game rings. Two rings, one of twisted hide ornamented with short sections of beadwork; one wooden hoop laced with hide netting. 3.25" (8 cm); 2" (5 cm). Records: Warriors or hunters purchase the privilege of throwing a dart at this ring and derive auguries from success or failure in sending their darts through the circle. Illustrated in BAE-AR 24, 478, fig. 623. (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: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kiowa And Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, 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: 025718
label: USNM Number
content: E152907-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hoop And Pole Game