Eagle 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: Buckskin cover painted on the exterior. White with yellow, blue, and brown parallel lines below ears and around bottom, rows of green diamond shapes on right half, rows of eagles on left half, small blue bat at lower left, horsehair and buffalo wool pendants. Coyote skin door. Set of poles. 66" (168 cm). Records: This tipi was seen by Adalboingyato in the waking vision in which he received the bird shield (see 229818-229824). The body color was plain with a rainbow at top and bottom. A buffalo tail is hung from the upper center back and a tuft of buffalo hair from each flap. The door was a coyote skin. Model by Gaapiatan's daughter, 1892. Illustrated in Ewers 1978: 30. (C). Associated names: Adalboingyato; Gaapiatan. (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: 7 Jul 2021
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: E229899-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi Model