Northeast Pictorial Beaded Cloth Bag

Description:

Northeast Pictorial Beaded Cloth Bag, Seneca type, c. 1830, two figures appear to be holding hands creating a heart shape at center, 7 x 6 1/4 in.

Exhibitions: Made of Thunder, Made of Glass, American Indian Beadwork of the Northeast was shown at the Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2006, Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield, Massachusetts, 2007, Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Warner, New Hampshire, 2008, and The Institute of American Indian Studies, Washington, Connecticut, 2009. Made of Thunder, Made of Glass II, Continuing Traditions in Northeastern Indian Beadwork was exhibited at Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield, Massachusetts, 2015, and Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, 2016.

Literature: A Cherished Curiosity: The Souvenir Beaded Bag in Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Art, 2012, p. 67; Made of Thunder, Made of Glass, American Indian Beadwork of the Northeast exhibition catalog, 2006, p. 22.
Estimate $2,000-3,000


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