Hair clasp/Barrette
date: label: Date created
content: 1962-1963
name: label: Culture/People
content: Niuam (Comanche)
label: Artist/Maker
content: May Wauqua (Mae Chockpoyah), Niuam (Comanche), b. 1906
label: Previous owner
content: Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
label: IACB source
content: Oklahoma Indian Arts and Crafts Cooperative (Oklahoma Indian Arts and Crafts Co-op/Southern Plains Indian Craftspersons' Cooperative)
notes: label: Collection History
content: Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Oklahoma Indian Arts and Crafts Cooperative (Anadarko, Oklahoma) in 1963; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Oklahoma; USA (inferred)
setName: label: See related items
content: Niuam (Comanche)
label: See related items
content: Adornment/Jewelry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 26/1955
label: Barcode
content: 261955.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adornment/Jewelry
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Hair clasp/Barrette
label: Media/Materials
content: Commercial suede, glass bead/beads, metal jewelry findings, plastic, thread
label: Techniques
content: Loom beadwork, stitched
label: Dimensions
content: 10.8 x 2.6 x 1.9 cm