Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Nancy Engle (Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York) from the artist 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
- Tuscarora
- Artist/Maker
- Matilda Hill, Tuscarora, 1894-1985
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB agent
- Nancy Engle, Non-Indian
- IACB source
- Matilda Hill, Tuscarora, 1894-1985
- Date created
- 1969
- Object Name
- Boot/shoe whimsey
- Media/Materials
- Velvet, cardboard, glass bead/beads, cotton tape, thread
- Techniques
- Sewn, raised beadwork, overlay beadwork, strung
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 10.0 x 3.7 cm
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs: Whimsies
