Buffalo Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Hide blanket. Buffalo hide with hair on, heavily worn and repaired in several places. Catalog and label identify this as Kiowa. Tag identifies it as Comanche. 88" (223 cm). Records: A buffalo hide pieced with buffalo calf-skin. Thrown over the slat-work bed of willow wands. Very old. [Tag in Mooney's hand reads:] "Woman's buffalo blanket. Comanche. $7.00" (C,L,T). (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: 22 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E152961-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Buffalo Robe