Beadwork

Museum number:
2-30115a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210230115a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.1118
Description:
Strips of dark blue wool stroud cloth, edges bound with black cotton cloth, backing of pink and yellow cotton cloth, floral design in yellow, blue, pink and green glass seed beads, white beads around edge. Cloth badly deteriorated and many beads missing. See 2-71292 a,b for two strips which were originally part of 2-30115.
Donor:
A. Wallis Kierulff
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Northern Athapaskan tribes
Collector:
A. Wallis Kierulff and Harry Newton Kierulff
Collection date:
1890-1903
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1953
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 4.6 centimeters and 26 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Beadwork, accession number 2-30115a,b, described as Strips of dark blue wool stroud cloth, edges bound with black cotton cloth, backing of pink and yellow cotton cloth, floral design in yellow, blue, pink and green glass seed beads, white beads around edge. Cloth badly deteriorated and many beads missing. See 2-71292 a,b for two strips which were originally part of 2-30115.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Beadwork, accession number 2-30115a,b, described as Strips of dark blue wool stroud cloth, edges bound with black cotton cloth, backing of pink and yellow cotton cloth, floral design in yellow, blue, pink and green glass seed beads, white beads around edge. Cloth badly deteriorated and many beads missing. See 2-71292 a,b for two strips which were originally part of 2-30115.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Beadwork, accession number 2-30115a,b, described as Strips of dark blue wool stroud cloth, edges bound with black cotton cloth, backing of pink and yellow cotton cloth, floral design in yellow, blue, pink and green glass seed beads, white beads around edge. Cloth badly deteriorated and many beads missing. See 2-71292 a,b for two strips which were originally part of 2-30115.

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