Handbag/purse
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- Date created
- 1969
- Culture/People
- Tuscarora
- Artist/Maker
- Ruth Mt. Pleasant (Eliza Ruth Patterson/Eliza Ruth Mt. Pleasant/Mrs. Edison P. Mt. Pleasant II), Tuscarora, 1922-2005
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB agent
- Nancy Engle, Non-Indian
- IACB source
- Ruth Mt. Pleasant (Eliza Ruth Patterson/Eliza Ruth Mt. Pleasant/Mrs. Edison P. Mt. Pleasant II), Tuscarora, 1922-2005
- 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
- Tuscarora Reservation; Niagara County; New York; USA
- See related items
- Tuscarora
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/1466
- Barcode
- 261466.000
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
- Object Name
- Handbag/purse
- Media/Materials
- Hide, glass bead/beads, thread
- Techniques
- Stitched, edge beaded, overlay beadwork
- Dimensions
- 28.8 x 16.2 x 1.0 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_277563