Fire Fans
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: Fire fan. Bundle of grass tied near one end with strip of cotton cloth. 22" (56 cm). Records: Used to fan the fires when heating stones for the sweat-house. The sweat-house is a very small hut in which sweat-baths are taken either for medicinal purposes or as a priliminary to some religious ceremony. The hut is heated by the steam caused by pouring water on hot stones. The bather remains in the hut until his body is profuse with sweat and then runs out and plunges into a stream of water. (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: 22 Oct 2020
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025718
label: USNM Number
content: E152998-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Fan