Necklace
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- Date created
- 1964
- Culture/People
- Mississippi Choctaw
- Artist/Maker
- Elsie Willis Jim (Mrs. Vernon Jim), Mississippi Choctaw, 1920-2006
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Choctaw Craft Association (Choctaw Craft Association)
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Choctaw Craft Association (Philadelphia, Mississippi) in 1965; 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
- Pearl River Community, Choctaw Reservation; Neshoba County; Mississippi; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Mississippi Choctaw
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/1813
- Barcode
- 261813.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Necklace
- Media/Materials
- Glass bead/beads, metal jewelry findings, thread
- Techniques
- Gourd stitch/Brick stitch/Netted beadwork
- Dimensions
- 0.5 x 20.7 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_277920