Heart Shaped Pin Cushion with Bird Design
Mohawk (Haudenosaunee)
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
1920s-1940s
Beads, cloth, metalic sequins
Overall: 8 1/16 × 7 1/16 × 1 15/16 in. (20.5 × 18 × 5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift Ena Eanchuk
170.10.24907
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Sewing
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Exhibition History
Native American Designs of the Northern Woodlands, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 20, 1995-February 9, 1997.
Provenance
"Indians, Northern New York"; Ena Eanchuk's (1909-2002) family for 30 years [collected about 1940?], Norwich, Vermont; given to present collection, 1970.
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