Wheel & Stick Game (Kotal)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: C. 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Wheel and stick game (Kotal) Wooden hoop filled with rawhide netting, painted red. NOTE: Four lances missing. 11.25" (29 cm). Records: The wheel is netted with rawhide. Four sticks or lances; one has a foreshaft and is painted blue and red and decorated with beads and eagle feathers; the others, which are smaller, are plain branches, at the upper ends of which are prongs, stained red. The object of the game is to throw the lance into the center of the wheel. (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: 3
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: E152898-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hoop And Pole Game