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Place of OriginNorth America
Datelate 18th century
Dimensions4 3/4 × 1 1/2 × 1/8 in. (12.1 × 3.8 × 0.3 cm)
Mediumbuckskin, glass beads
ClassificationTextiles and Fiber
Credit LinePurchased with funds from The Joseph and Kathleen Magliochetti Fund
Object number
2023.362
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DescriptionPossibly for needles, composed of two pieces of finely tanned dyed-black buckskin, the uppermost slit down the center to form an opening, trimmed with thread sewn opaque red glass pony beads
Published ReferencesPhillips, Ruth B. and Dale Idiens, “‘A Casket of Savage Curiosities’: Eighteenth-century Objects from Northeastern North America in the Farquharson Collection,” Journal of the History of Collections, 1994, vol. 6, no. 1.
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