Buffalo Spear Set: Spear
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Dec 1893
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Heinrich R. Voth
label: Donor Name
content: World's Columbian Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: George Levi of the Cheyenne delegation from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma made these comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit November 3-6, 2015. George noted that a warrior had to earn the right to carry a spear like this (with the accompanying streamer E165870-0). The warrior would have had to be part of a society, kill some enemies, obtain horses in a raid, etc. The spear would have been used to kill both animals and the enemy. You can see its uses in ledger drawings. He also noted that this particular spear is light as a broomstick.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Cheyenne And Arapaho Reservation, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026674
label: USNM Number
content: E165870-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear