A headstall for a horse, featuring harness leather with silver mountings attached to a commercial bit and reins of braided horsehair over a rope foundation. The stamped and engraved silver mountings include concha disks and pieces on the browband. Collected by James Mooney from the Kiowa people on the Kiowa and Comanche Reservation in the Oklahoma Indian Territory.
Harness leather with silver mountings attached to commercial bit, reins of braided horsehair over rope foundation. Silver pieces stamped and engraved. 80" (204 cm). Records: Engraved by Indians. Illustrated in Feder 1962: 72, fig. 39. (C, L). (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.)
- Title: Headstall
- Location: Kiowa And Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, United States, North America
- Physical Dimensions: L: 204cm
- Type: Headstall
- Rights: This image was obtained from the Smithsonian Institution. The image or its contents may be protected by international copyright laws. http://www.si.edu/termsofuse
- External Link: View this object record in the Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center
- USNM Catalog Number(s): E152952
- Photo Credit: Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
- Field: Ethnology
- Accession Date: 1892-05-17
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