Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Medicine Man Craft Shop (Cherokee, North Carolina) in 1973; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Artist/Maker
- Richard Teesatuskie, Eastern Band of Cherokee, 1944-2012
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Medicine Man Crafts (Medicine Man Craft Shop), 1967-
- Date created
- 1972-1973
- Object Name
- Finger ring
- Media/Materials
- Silver, coral, mother-of-pearl
- Techniques
- Hammered, bezel-set/stone-setting, petit point/needlepoint, patinated
- Dimensions
- 3.6 x 2 x 2.2 cm
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
