Clothing
Clothing
Clothing
Woman's blue wool head throw with glass bead embroidery, created by Lillian Blackchief (Seneca) of Tonawanda reservation, NY. Collected by William A. Ritchie, Curator of Anthropology, Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, for the Indian Arts Project, and received by Peabody in an exchange in 1949.
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Navy wool, red satin ribbon, glass beads
Triangular piece of navy wool with red satin ribbon edge. Beads border the ribbon edging, yellow beads on outer edge, green beads on inner edge. Beadwork in yellow and green in the centre corner of the scarf
Triangular motifs, possibly mountains(?) - 4 small triangles below, 1 large triangle on top flanked by 2 smaller triangles. Triangles have curvilinear motifs, possibly leaves(?)
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Provenance
W.A. Ritchie, Curator of Anthropology, Rochester Museum of Arts and Scineces as intermediary - Exchange with the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences in 1949. "We are sending you today by express prepared a collection of Seneca Indian articles made on New York reservations during W.P.A. times under the Indian Arts Project" - Correspondence from W.A. Ritchie to J.O. Brew 6/29/1949.
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Visit to Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) of Wahsontiio Cross and Alexandra Nahwegahbow, assisted by Meredith Vasta on 11-12 August 2015.
43.0612, -78.4489
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