Lance

Object Details

Collector

Mr. James Mooney

Donor Name

Bureau Of American Ethnology

Lance model. Metal blade (16.5 inches) broken at tip, wooden shaft incised and painted with geometric designs and figures of arrows, underwater monster, and animals, feathered pendants, wrapped and gourd stitch beadwork sections near butt. 107" (279 cm). Records: The lance head used is an old one found with point broken off beside the grave of an Arapaho Indian. It was probably made at one of the early trading posts on the Arkansas. (C). Associated names: Tenebate. (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.)

Record Last Modified

6 Mar 2021

Specimen Count

1

Culture

Kiowa

Accession Date

19 Dec 1904

Accession Number

043633

USNM Number

E233115-0

Object Type

Lance Model

Place

Plains (Southern), United States, North America

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Topic

Ethnology

Record ID

nmnhanthropology_8367183

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/32f6b7b4d-d9b5-4a15-96c8-d9cbe8f6a53c