Kiowa @ Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
The University of Oklahoma
2401 Chautauqua Ave, Norman, OK 73072
GPS Coordinates: 35.194438, -97.449037
Tel: +1 405-325-4712
Web: https://samnoblemuseum.ou.edu/

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History has at least 47 different works of art and 500 objects and artifacts originating from the Kiowa Nation.
A searchable database can be found here:
https://samnoblemuseum.ou.edu/collections-and-research/ethnology/
You can search for the keyword "Kiowa".

Contact the house first to confirm which items are currently on display, as they, like most other collections and museums, may rotate their collection on display.

The museum contains approximately "7 million objects and specimens in 12 collections." It has almost 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m2) of exhibit space, with five galleries and exhibits that provide an in-depth tour of Oklahoma’s natural history. It is "one of the world's largest university-based natural history museums."

Native American languages
The Annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair is held at the museum every April. In 2013, the fair set a new record for attendance, with 921 Native American language students representing 46 different languages. Over 72 languages are held in the museum archives.

Notable specimens
* The world's largest Apatosaurus skeleton.
* The Cooper Skull, a bison skull, found in 1994, is "the oldest painted object in North America."
* A Pentaceratops skeleton with a very large skull 3.1 meters high, the largest skull of any known land vertebrate. The skull was excavated in 1941, but was not removed from its rock matrix until 1995. Though some debate exists if the skull is that of a Pentaceratops or the holotype of a different ceratopsian Titanoceratops, the Sam Noble Museum still maintains the original Pentaceratops classification.
* A number of Mississippian culture stone effigy pipes and other artifacts from the Craig Mound at the Spiro Site.

Sources:
* Wikipedia contributors. (2018, February 27). Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23:48, January 31, 2019, from en.wikipedia.org