Object Details
- Culture/People
- Tuscarora
- Artist/Maker
- Matilda Hill, Tuscarora, 1894-1985
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB agent
- Nancy Engle, Non-Indian
- IACB source
- Matilda Hill, Tuscarora, 1894-1985
- Collection History
- Purchased by Nancy Engle (Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York) from the artist on behalf of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board in 1969; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Date created
- 1969
- Catalog Number
- 26/1468
- Barcode
- 261468.000
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs: Whimsies
- Title
- Niagara Falls 1969
- Object Name
- Whimsey
- Media/Materials
- Velveteen, taffeta, glass bead/beads, cotton tape, thread, unknown stuffing
- Techniques
- Sewn, raised beadwork, overlay beadwork, edge beaded, stuffed
- Dimensions
- 14.3 x 13.3 x 4 cm
- Place
- Lewiston; Niagara County; New York; USA
- See related items
- Tuscarora
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs: Whimsies
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Native New York, Niagra Falls (Ex14)
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_277565
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws64b5e402a-6362-44f5-b1f8-f1998a37bd0e
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