Huckleberry Bead Necklace
Tahltan
Dene (Athabascan)
First Nation
Subarctic
collected late 1920s-1945
Beads and cotton string
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Doris Meltzer
166.56.24807.2
Geography
Place Made: Telegraph Creek, Stikine River, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Subarctic
Not on view
Provenance
[Possibly collected by Axel Rasmussen (about 1887-1945), possibly 1920-30's; Earl L. Stendahl (1887-1966), Los Angeles California]; Doris Meltzer (1980-1977), Meltzer Gallery, New York; given to present collection, 1966.
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