Shawl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Feb 2017
label: Collection Date
content: 3 Jul 2006
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Candace S. Greene
label: Collector
content: Dr. Michael Jordan
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Description: The shawl is made of olive colored gabardine with red fringe It is decorated with eight appliquéd geometric designs in red taffeta with center cut outs, arranged in a row near one fringed edge. This shawl was acquired at the Kiowa Tiah Piah Society's dance at Chieftain's Park on July 3, 2006. It was auctioned during the evening set of dancing. Mr. Alva Roughface, the arena director, walked the shawl around the arena soliciting bids. The shawl was being auctioned by “the drum” (those singing around the central drum), the money raised through the raffle to be split among the singers. The shawl had been given to the drum during an earlier giveaway by the family of Kindred Sweezy. He had been initiated into the Kiowa Tia Piah Society that night, prompting his family to hold a giveaway. According to Mr. Sweezy, his grandmother Mary Kay Sweezy had contributed the shawl to his giveaway. She is one of the Arapaho elders who supported the decision to hold an Offerings Lodge ritual in Oklahoma in the summer of 2006. She had received the shawl from Ruby Rochelle of El Reno, Oklahoma at a dance in Geary, Oklahoma earlier that summer. That dance had been held to honor the elders who backed the decision to hold the Offerings Lodge ritual (the Arapaho form of Sun Dance) and it was in this context that she had been given the shawl. She was not sure if Ms. Rochelle had actually made the shawl.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
label: Culture
content: Arapaho (Inunaina, Hinono'ei), Southern
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2076808
label: USNM Number
content: E434672-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dance Garment
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 218 cm
label: Width
content: 216 cm