Turtle brooch/pin
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Seneca
- Artist/Maker
- Edna Parker (Mrs. Everett Parker), Seneca, 1904-1990
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB agent
- Nancy Engle, Non-Indian
- IACB source
- Edna Parker (Mrs. Everett Parker), Seneca, 1904-1990
- 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
- 25/7028
- Barcode
- 257028.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Turtle brooch/pin
- Media/Materials
- Glass bead/beads, wool felt, metal jewelry findings
- Techniques
- Sewn, overlay beadwork
- Dimensions
- 4.8 x 3.2 x 1.1 cm
- Place
- Basom, Tonawanda Reservation; Genesee County; New York; USA
- See related items
- Seneca
- Adornment/Jewelry
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_272913
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6b3f27577-cf19-4f23-bd82-d45e92da3a26
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