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Artist/Maker
Unknown artist
Datec. 1870-75
MediumLeather with dentalium shells and trade beads
DimensionsOverall (at widest): 14 in. × 4 1/2 in. (35.6 × 11.4 cm)
Overall (at narrowest): 14 × 1 5/8 in. (35.6 × 4.1 cm)
Credit LineTransferred from the Knox Hall of Natural History, Hamilton College
Object number1984.456
Not on view
DescriptionLeather with dentalium shell red trade cloth "white heart" and Russian faceted blue beads. Files note that this style of hair decoration was worn by women of high or noble birth. Some historic documentation lists this object as a belt pendant from a Plains tribe.
Collections
Additional Details
Exhibition History
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.);
1985
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Wonderful Heroes Fearsome Creatures," November 2 - December 14, 1985 (cat. no. 1, illus. 19).
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.);
1985
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Wonderful Heroes Fearsome Creatures," November 2 - December 14, 1985 (cat. no. 1, illus. 19).
Provenance
1984: Hamilton College (Emerson Gallery), by transfer from the Anthropology Department;
? - 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).
? - 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
WONDERFUL HEROES FEARSOME CREATURES: ART OF THE NORTHWEST COAST, exh. cat. (Clinton, NY: Fred L. Emerson Gallery, 1985), 19, illus. 19.
Inscribed
Inscribed in marker on verso at top of narrow section on white shell: Na Pl / 12
Unknown artist
Date: date unknown
Medium: Wood, black and red pigment, shells or seeds, feathers, gum or resin
Object number: 2023.10.49
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with glass beads, metal, and coin
Object number: 1984.538
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Tanned leather, sinew, and glass beads
Object number: 1984.532
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with rawhide, glass beads, and sinew
Object number: 1984.543
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with rawhide, glass beads, and tin cone dangles
Object number: 1984.542
Unknown artist
Date: unknown
Medium: Leather and glass beads
Object number: 1984.536
Unknown artist
Date: unknown
Medium: Leather; blue and white glass beads
Object number: 1984.537
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with sinew, porcupine quill, yarn, and glass beads
Object number: 1984.533
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with sinew and glass seed beads
Object number: 1984.534
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