Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Nancy Engle (Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York) from the artists 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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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Seneca [Allegany]
- Artist/Maker
- DeForest Abrams (Deforest Monroe Abrams), Seneca [Allegany], 1907-1979 and Gladys Abrams (Gladys John), Seneca [Allegany], 1911-1971
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB agent
- Nancy Engle, Non-Indian
- IACB source
- DeForest Abrams (Deforest Monroe Abrams), Seneca [Allegany], 1907-1979
- Gladys Abrams (Gladys John), Seneca [Allegany], 1911-1971
- Date created
- 1969
- Object Name
- Club
- Media/Materials
- Stone, wood, commercial leather thong, feather/feathers, paint, embroidery floss
- Techniques
- Carved, painted, wrapped, tied
- Dimensions
- 25.3 x 7 x 3.5 cm
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
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