Necklace
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- Date created
- 1969
- Culture/People
- Seneca
- Artist/Maker
- 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
- Betsey Carpenter (Betsy Carpenter), Seneca, 1896-1993
- 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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- Place
- Basom, Tonawanda Reservation; Genesee County; New York; USA
- See related items
- Seneca
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/1205
- Barcode
- 261205.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Necklace
- Media/Materials
- Glass bead/beads, thread
- Techniques
- Gourd stitch/Brick stitch/Netted beadwork, fringed
- Dimensions
- 40.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_277302