Object Details
- Culture/People
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Artist/Maker
- Elizabeth Bigmeat Jackson, Eastern Band of Cherokee, 1919-2008
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual (Qualla Arts & Crafts Cooperative/Qualla Arts & Crafts Coop/Qualla Crafts), 1946-
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Qualla Arts and Crafts Cooperative (Cherokee, North Carolina) in 1965; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Date created
- September 23, 1964
- Catalog Number
- 25/9218
- Barcode
- 259218.000
- Object Type
- Furnishings (Home)
- Object Name
- Oil lamp in the form of a bird
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Coiled/hand built, modeled, incised
- Dimensions
- 18.4 x 13.5 x 10.4 cm
- Place
- Wrights Creek; Eastern Cherokee Reservation, Qualla Boundary; Jackson County; North Carolina; USA
- See related items
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Furnishings (Home)
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, Animals
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_275207
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6a7fbb98f-100d-4aeb-aa5a-7a8c289d54cd
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