Full size tipi. With poles, pegs, pins, and door flap. Paintings of corn stalks on sides.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Central Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Central Plains
Culture or time period:
Umoⁿhoⁿ
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
September 8, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Materials, techniques: p. 95-97, "The Omaha Tribe", BAE 27 description of materials and raising. Catalogue says that the decorations on the tipi verify that it is "Inkethabe" clan of the Omaha. However, cf. Plate 27, p. 146-155 (for discussion of the Omaha clans) "The Omaha Tribe", BAE 27, Fletcher & LaFlesche. Photo: 13/100; 13/101 (Plate 27, p. 155, 27th Annual Report -BAE- "The Omaha Tribe").