Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Sep 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS BLANKET WAS ACQUIRED BY MOONEY FROM THE KIOWA, WHERE IT WAS A WRAPPING FOR THE SET KONKYA BUFFALO SHIELD [shield is Catalogue No. E178356]. 11/3/41-THIS BLANKET APPEARS TO BE AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF AN OLD MEXICAN SALTILLO.--J. WECKLER. MAR 73 -PROBABLY A MEXICAN SALTILLO; CHIMAYO (SPANISH AMERICAN WEAVERS NEAR SANTA FE. COMMERCIAL 4 PLY (ANALIN) DYE YARN.--DR. J. BEN WHEAT."
label: Notes
content: Blanket wrapping. Handwoven textile with center seam. Black background with stripes, serrated diamonds and central stepped diamond pattern in red, orange, white and grey. See 178,356 for associated shield. 79" (200 cm). Records: This blanket was accquired by James Mooney from the Kiowa. It was a wrapping for the Setkonkya buffalo shield. Later identified by Dr. Joe Ben Wheat, an expert on Southwestern textiles as: "probably a Mexican Saltillo; Chimayo (Spanish American weavers near Sante Fe)." (C). Associated names: Setkonkya (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: 2 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
label: Culture
content: Mexican
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034001
label: USNM Number
content: E178368-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket