Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown, but said to have been collected in 1857; formerly in the collection of Stephen Hyatt Pelham Pell (1874-1950), a historian, collector, and founder of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum in Ticonderoga, New York; acquired by MAI through an exchange with Stephen Pell in 1937.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Non-Indian; collected from the Chippewa/Ojibwa
- Previous owner
- Stephen H. P. Pell (Stephen Hyatt Pelham Pell), Non-Indian, 1874-1950
- Date created
- 1800-1830
- Object Name
- Gorget
- Media/Materials
- Silver, brass
- Techniques
- Hammered, engraved, perforated
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
