Water Medicine Staff Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Dec 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "Consisting of a dressed pole painted green; to the upper end is tied an oblong bundle wrapped in green cloth and to these are fastened eagle feathers and bead strings. From tie bundle also hangs a black bag containing herbs. Strips of black cloth tied to staff at top and near middle, Set up behind Tonaka tipi. (Rest of info on old cat. card incomprehensible.) // 'Incomprehensible' info reads: 'A forked stick painted red ard leaving this n(?) and feathers accompany this staff'. -- L. Miller"
label: Notes
content: Medicine staff model. Green-painted pole pointed at lower end, string-wrapped cloth bundle ornamented with eagle feathers and bead-wrapped cross tied near upper end, black and white cloths tied to shaft, one of which is a miniature tipi cover. Catalog indicates that a forked stick originally accompanied this object. 67" (170 cm) Records: Tonaka Water Medicine staff, nearly actual size. Set up behind Tonaka tipi. (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: 6 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
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: 043633
label: USNM Number
content: E233100-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Staff Model