Amulet
Diné (Navajo)
Southwest
possibly late 19th century
Bone, leather, tooth, glass beads, and turquoise
Overall: 5 11/16 × 1 1/8 in. (14.4 × 2.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26248
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Symbol: Amulet
Research Area
Funerary Objects
Native American: Southwest
Native American
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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