Football
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: C. 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Cowskin. Illus. in BAE 24th AR, fig. 810, p. 630." Identified in the publication as a ball for the game of shinny.
label: Notes
content: Spherical ball made of two pieces of cowhide. 4" (10 cm). Records: The game of football is played by the women and girls. They do not drive the ball with the foot. The game consists in supporting the ball as long as possible on the toes of one foot while they dance around on the other. Illustrated in BAE-AR 24, 630, fig. 810. (C, ML). (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: Kiowa And Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, 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: 025718
label: USNM Number
content: E152904-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ball