Beadwork

Beadwork

Beadwork

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Introduction

Red-wool beaded Seneca style-pouch with curvilinear, zig-zag and diamond motifs.

Nation of Maker: Seneca
Nation of Origin

style/design

Date Made or Date Range: before 1923
Materials

Red wool with black polished cotton lining. Bound with silk ribbon. Silk ribbon handle. Beads, thread. 2 sets of metal hook and eye.

Techniques or Format

Back and foldover flap made of single piece of red wool. Body of pouch is bound with blue silk ribbon, Front flap bound with green silk ribbon. Ornamented with beadwork on front and back.

Motifs and Patterns

Zigzags. Double lobed motif at border of front flap. Diamond shapes with double lobed motifs at the corners. Curvilinear motifs

Other Notes

Style appears to be Seneca (WC). Appears unfinished or was perhaps the project of someone just learning (WC). Line of beadwork at the back of the pouch is multicoloured.

Dimensions: 18.733 × 19.05 × 0 cm
Condition: very good to excellent
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catalog data

Current Location: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: E24365
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1923
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Gift of Mr. William Sumner Appleton, 1923 (catalog data)
GKS Reference Number: 45070
Record Creation Context

Visit to Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA) of Wahsontiio Cross and Alexandra Nahwegahbow, assisted by Eric Wohlin on 10 August 2015.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.6, -71.9

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