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: Orange with blue dot at center surrounded by yellow, red, and black concentric circles, upside-down, red human figures on each side with wavy lines below eyes and blue crescents above heads, feathers on left, hooves and feather on right, piece of hide with hair at top, two strips of furred hide at back. Outside. Records: Akopti first made this shield in 1862. He died in 1870. This shield (also 229836) was connected with the Taime, or Sun Dance medicine (see 229825) and were ranged upon tripods in front of the Medicine Lodge at each Sun Dance. (C). Associated names: Akopti; Guiananti. (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: 16 Jun 2023
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: E229833-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shield Model