Red, white, and blue beads at one end with 2 pendant streamers heavily fringed and wrapped with same beads; bronze medal (silver-plated?) attached to whistle; obverse: bust of Ulysses S. Grant in center, "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LIBERTY JUSTICE AND EQUALITY 'LET US HAVE PEACE'"; reverse: center is globe, open bible, misc. tools, "ON EARTH PEACE GOOD WILL TOWARDS MEN 1871." Bird wing bone, buckskin, glass beads.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Kiowa
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Whistles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Context of use:
Used in Sun Dance. "Peace Medals" were usually formally presented to Indians on the occasion of treaty signing or when important conferences were held. The custom of giving such medals began in European Colonial times.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 20 centimeters and diameter 6.3 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971. "Medal disappeared following the taking down of the Plains exhibit
Loans:
S1964-1965 #111: Oakland Public Museum (June 1, 1965–June 7, 1965)