War Bonnet Case
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Oct 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Conical." See p. 27 in Merrill, William L. 1997. A guide to the Kiowa collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian contributions to anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Case is identified there as "Cylindrical case with painted geometric designs. 23.5" (60 cm.). This may be the specimen referred to by Mooney (1898:400), who mentions a war bonnet case in the National Museum that formerly belonged to Dohasan III [i.e. Little Bluff lll]." Object is illustrated in Fig. 48, p. 133 of that publication.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, 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: 026286
label: USNM Number
content: E165244-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Case