Necklace with turtle pendant
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Tuscarora
- Artist/Maker
- Duffy Wilson (Wilmer Francis Wilson/Segwoi-Don-Kwe), Tuscarora/Cayuga, 1925-2002
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB agent
- Nancy Engle, Non-Indian
- IACB source
- Duffy Wilson (Wilmer Francis Wilson/Segwoi-Don-Kwe), Tuscarora/Cayuga, 1925-2002
- Collection History
- Purchased by Nancy Engle (Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York) from the artist on behalf of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board in 1969; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Date created
- 1969
- Catalog Number
- 25/6553
- Barcode
- 256553.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Necklace with turtle pendant
- Media/Materials
- Cow horn, commercial leather thong
- Techniques
- Carved, incised, drilled
- Dimensions
- 49.4 x 3.1 x 1.3 cm
- Place
- Tuscarora Reservation; Niagara County; New York; USA
- See related items
- Tuscarora
- Adornment/Jewelry
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_272436
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6d02898ba-43b7-4478-962a-ff45c537f3fd
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