Woven Beaded Necklace with Chinese Characters Good Fortune and Double Happiness
Cherokee
collected 1902-1904
Glass Beads
Overall: 27 3/16 × 1 5/16 in. (69 × 3.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9925
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Native American
Not on view
Inscriptions
福 囍
Provenance
Unknown maker, Cherokee Oklahoma Reservation; collected by Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Cherokee Oklahoma Reservation, Oklahoma, 1902-1904; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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