Blue Bead Necklace with a Brass Crucifix
Akimel O'odham (Pima)
collected about 1904-1907
Blue glass beads and brass
Overall: 12 13/16 in. (32.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.10024
Geography
Place Made: Sacaton, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Native American
Not on view
Inscriptions
On the back of the crucifix is "Souvenir De Mission".
Exhibition History
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 17-December 30, 2019.
Provenance
Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Arizona, 1904-1907; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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