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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.

Name of Maker(s): Lillian Blackchief
Nation of Maker: Seneca
Nation of Origin

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Place of Origin: Tonawanda Seneca Nation
Date Made or Date Range: before 1949
Materials

Navy wool, red satin ribbon, glass beads

Techniques or Format

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

Motifs and Patterns

Triangular motifs, possibly mountains(?) - 4 small triangles below, 1 large triangle on top flanked by 2 smaller triangles. Triangles have curvilinear motifs, possibly leaves(?)

Dimensions: 103.5 × 48.5 × 0 cm
Condition: excellent
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Current Location: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 49-10-10/29426
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1949
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1949
Previous Collectors: William A. Ritchie
Collection Narratives and Histories

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.

GKS Reference Number: 45119
Record Creation Context

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.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.0612, -78.4489

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