Bolo tie
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- Date created
- 1968-1969
- Culture/People
- Seneca [Cattaraugus]
- Artist/Maker
- Addie John (Mrs. Leland John, Sr.), Seneca [Cattaraugus]
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB agent
- Nancy Engle, Non-Indian
- IACB source
- Molly Velzy (Molly Henry/Mrs. Claude Velzy), Onondaga, 1909-1989
- Collection History
- Purchased by Nancy Engle (Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York) from Molly Velzy (Onondaga, 1909-1989) 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
- Cattaraugus Reservation; Erie County, Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County; New York; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Seneca [Cattaraugus]
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/1219
- Barcode
- 261219.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Bolo tie
- Media/Materials
- Glass bead/beads, cordage, felt, thread
- Techniques
- Bead-wrapped, lazy/lane stitch beadwork, stitched, overlay beadwork
- Dimensions
- 52.0 x 5.9 x 0.8 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_277316