Great Lakes Loom Beaded Choker

Description:

Great Lakes Loom Beaded Choker, mid-19th century, tightly woven with small seed beads, multicolored thunderbird devices on a bottle-green ground, the beaded strip attached to birch bark, with blue silk (?) liner, Native tanned hide ties, (minor damage),dia. 5, wd. 2 in.

Provenance: Deaccessioned from a Massachusetts library museum.
Estimate $800-1,200

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