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Artist/Maker
Wendy Red Star
(Apsáalooke, born 1981)
Date2026
MediumGlass
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 × 8 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (23.5 × 21.6 × 21.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, William G. Roehrick '34 Art Acquisition and Preservation Fund
Object number2026.10.3
Not on view
DescriptionFrom the Trade Bead Market Ledger:
The Manhattan bead references the bead types circulating in early 17th-century Dutch colonial trade. While no single bead can be definitively linked to the 1626 transaction later interpreted as the “purchase” of Manhattan Island, beads formed a visible component of the mixed-goods bundles exchanged between Dutch merchants and Lenape communities. These bundles consistently included axes, knives, kettles, textiles, ammunition, and beads—items recognized across the Hudson region’s Indigenous economies.
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Exhibition History
"Wendy Red Star | One Blue Bead", Sargent's Daughters, March 6-April 18, 2026.
Ozioma Onuzulike
Date: 2023
Medium: Earthenware and stoneware clays, ash glazes, recycled glasses and copper wire with 4,770 ceramic palm kernel shell beads
Object number: 2024.19
Date: 20th century
Medium: Glass beads, metal washers, brass US millitary button, cotton, thread
Object number: 2024.3.7
Date: c. 1870-75
Medium: Leather with dentalium shells and trade beads
Object number: 1984.456