Taime Shield
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: Unpainted cover, red stroud cloth-wrapped horsehair tuft down center, two feathers at top. Outside. Records: A scalp and two eagle feathers. The Taime is the great sacred image, or palladium, of the Kiowas which was exposed only upon occasion of the annual Sun Dance, last held in 1887. It is of stone roughly resembling the head and bust of a human figure and with a blue sun and two crescents painted upon the breast as on the Taime shield. Ansogiani, the maker of the Taime shield, was the guardian of the sacred image for forty years until his death in 1870. (C). Associated names: Ansogiani; Ansote; Adalpepti; Gyaigumtat. (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: 11 Dec 2014
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: E229825-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model