Bow "Medicine Lodge"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Oct 1897
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BOW WITH PLUMES OF EAGLE FEATHERS. POISONED."
label: Notes
content: Medicine Lodge effigy. Bundle of sticks wrapped in furred hide and lashed with thong to which are tied squares of cloth and eagle feathers. Tied to one end is a circle of buffalo hide lashed onto a small hoop adorned with hair tassels. Although obscurely cataloged, this item is probably a buffalo effigy placed in the center post of the Medicine lodge. See 233068. 27.25" (69 cm). Records: Bow "Medicine Lodge." (C). (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: 2 Dec 2020
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: 032642
label: USNM Number
content: E178354-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sun Dance Material