Beaded blanket strip

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Beaded blanket strip
Beaded blanket strip
Artist/Maker
Datec. 1875
MediumTanned leather, sinew, and glass beads
DimensionsOverall: 4 3/4 × 56 1/2 × 1/4 in. (12.1 × 143.5 × 0.6 cm)
Credit LineTransferred from the Knox Hall of Natural History, Hamilton College
Object number1984.532
Not on view
DescriptionBlanket strip, beaded with four rosettes.

Additional Details

Exhibition History 2012-13
Clinton, NY (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College). "Affinity Atlas," October 6, 2012 - April 7, 2013 (brochure);

2011
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Learning to Look: Hamilton's Cabinets, Galleries and Museums Past, Present and Future," September 15 - December 16, 2011 (no cat.);

Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Stations," September 13, 2010 - January 2, 2011 (no cat.).
Provenance 1984: Hamilton College (Emerson Gallery), by transfer from the Anthropology Department;
by 1979 - 1984: Hamilton College (Anthropology Department), by transfer from the Knox Hall of Natural History;
by 1925: Hamilton College (Knox Hall of Natural History), by gift from an unknown donor (research pending).
Published References AFFINITY ATLAS (brochure Clinton, NY, Wellin Museum of Art, 2012), 12, illus.
Inscribed Inscribed in ink on verso leather at right: NAPl 1 / E94
Beaded pouch
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with sinew and glass seed beads
Object number: 1984.534
Belt
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with brass tacks, glass beads, sinew, and thread
Object number: 1984.539
Amulet with coin pendant
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with glass beads, metal, and coin
Object number: 1984.538
Moccasins
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with glass beads, porcupine quill, dyed horsehair-filled tin cone dangles, and cotton cloth
Object number: 1984.540a-b
Imperial Robe
Date: c. 1821
Medium: Silk and gold thread
Object number: INV.431
Fragment of a beaded loop
Unknown artist
Date: unknown
Medium: Leather and glass beads
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Unknown artist
Date: unknown
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Sean Paul
Date: 2005
Medium: Printed fabric on stretcher
Object number: 2012.3.17
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Jessie Catherine Kinsley
Date: 1933
Medium: Mixed-media braiding
Object number: 2005.7
1929
Karen Hampton
Date: 2001
Medium: Natural dyes and hand-stitching on found cotton tea towel
Object number: 2016.13
Photograph by Dave Revette
Karen Hampton
Date: 2015
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Object number: 2015.4
Knife sheath
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with rawhide, glass beads, and sinew
Object number: 1984.543