Object Details
- Collection History
- Donated to MAI by the artist on the occasion of the repatriation of eleven wampum belts to the Six Nations of the Grand River (Brantford, Ontario) on May 8, 1988.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Onondaga [Six Nations of the Grand River, Brantford, Ontario]
- Artist/Maker
- Helen Burning, Onondaga [Six Nations of the Grand River, Brantford, Ontario], 1917-1998
- Donor
- Helen Burning, Onondaga [Six Nations of the Grand River, Brantford, Ontario], 1917-1998
- Date created
- 1988
- Object Name
- Necklace
- Media/Materials
- Glass bead/beads, hide, mirror, hide thong/babiche
- Techniques
- Stitched, overlay beadwork, strung
- Dimensions
- 40 x 7.5 cm
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
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