Turtle pincushion
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Seneca
- Artist/Maker
- Edna Parker (Mrs. Everett Parker), Seneca, 1904-1990 and Betsey Carpenter (Betsy Carpenter), Seneca, 1896-1993
- 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
- Betsey Carpenter (Betsy Carpenter), Seneca, 1896-1993
- Collection History
- Purchased by Nancy Engle (Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York) from the artists 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
- 25/8573
- Barcode
- 258573.000
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs: Whimsies
- Object Name
- Turtle pincushion
- Media/Materials
- Felt, denim, glass bead/beads, sequins, unknown stuffing
- Techniques
- Sewn, overlay beadwork, stuffed
- Dimensions
- 19.5 x 13.5 x 3.9 cm
- Place
- Basom, Tonawanda Reservation; Genesee County; New York; USA
- See related items
- Seneca
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs: Whimsies
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_274519
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws61cddcbda-e6c1-43c8-9838-ae7f1b68c779
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