Tipi Model With Poles
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Collector
content: Rev. Heinrich R. Voth
label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: PLAINS STYLE MODEL TIPI PIECED TOGETHER/MACHINE SEWN FROM SMALL PIECES OF CHAMOIS. TIPI UNDECORATED EXCEPT FOR NAME SYMBOL DONE IN DARK RED CONSISTING OF STYLIZED NATIVE AMERICAN MAN'S HEAD WITH LINE CONNECTING TO FIGURE OF A BEAR. TIPI VERY DIRTY OUTSIDE AND IN. INSIDE TOP APPEARS POSSIBLY TO HAVE BEEN DELIBERATELY DARKENED TO IMITATE SMOKE-BLACKENING EFFECT OF HAVING FIRES IN A TIPI. ALSO, 16 WOODEN MODEL POLES FOR TIPI, INCLUDING 3 FOUNDATION POLES (2 OF 3 STILL TIED TOGETHER WITH STRING). TIPI WAS FOUND IN ASSOCIATION WITH CAT. #132997, CHEROKEE BLOW GUN ARROWS COLLECTED BY JAMES MOONEY, BUT 132997 IS NOT THE CORRECT NUMBER FOR THE TIPI. TIPI MAY BE AN EXHIBIT PROP OR RELATE SOMEHOW TO MOONEY TIPI MODEL COLLECTION, POSSIBLY TO # 233102? TIPI: H. 55 CM.; W. 97 CM.. POLES: MAX. L. 62 CM. - F. PICKERING 2-24-1999 Another possibility is that is could be Voth collection # E165930??
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Apr 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 15
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET24511-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi Model
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 55 cm
label: Width - Poles,
content: 97 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 62 cm