Tipi-Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Mar 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Tail Picture tipi model (Tondoguat). White with red band around edges, including ears, flanked by blue line. Blue dot at center top, blue fan-like patterns around bottom and sides with larger ones in red and blue at center and corners. Horsehair tuft at back center. Poles tipped with striped hide pendants, three foundation poles painted red at upper ends. 53" (135 cm). Records: Originally belonged to Dasai of the Kogui band who conceived it in a dream. Fan-shaped designs represent eagle tails. This model was made by a daughter-in-law of Zepkoeeti, Big Bow. Illustrated in Ewers 1978: 18. (C). Associated names: Dasai; Tebodal; Donai; Zepkoeeti; Zepkoeeti's daughter-in-law. (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: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 30, p. 72 in Szabo, Joyce M. Imprisoned Art: Complex Patronage. Santa Fe, NM: SAR, 2011.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Sep 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: 042431
label: USNM Number
content: E245003-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi Model