Object Details
- Collection History
- Product marketed and sold by the Fred Harvey Company (Indian arts dealers in the Southwest); donated to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board in 1969 by Kay Burgess (Cathryn Luella Riordan Burgess, 1912-1994), who operated concessions at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota in the 1950s and 1960s; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI. In addition to collecting and encouraging Native arts, IACB also acquired items that exploited Native designs and used them in educational exhibits to demonstrate the differences between authentic Indian work and imitations.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Non-Indian (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- Kay Burgess (Cathryn Luella Riordan/Mrs. Carl T. Burgess), Non-Indian, 1912-1994
- IACB source
- Kay Burgess (Cathryn Luella Riordan/Mrs. Carl T. Burgess), Non-Indian, 1912-1994
- Previous seller
- Fred Harvey Company (Fred Harvey Indian Department), 1876-1966
- Date created
- circa 1960
- Object Name
- Necklace with pendant
- Media/Materials
- Glass bead/beads, thread
- Techniques
- Overlay beadwork, strung
- Dimensions
- 51.8 x 2.9 x 1.9 cm
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
