Beaded Mat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Jun 1913
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. S E. Cummings
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "8-lobed round piece of paper-backed red wool cloth, decorated around the edge with separate concentric circles of thick ropes of clear glass seed beads, also lines of clear and white glass seed beads in between. Center filled with separated floral design in colored moosehair embroidery. Some beads missing. Returned from Div. Am. Costume, 10/1964."
label: Notes
content: Has been identified as Micmac, but an alternate ID would be Huron (Wendat). Moose hair embroidery resembles Huron (Wendat) work. Sources: Bruchac, Margaret, and Liliana Gurry. “Moose Hair Embroidered Birchbark Trays: French, Native, or Both.” Penn Museum Blog, November 9, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://www.penn.museum/blog/museum/moose-hair-embroidered-birchbark-trays-french-native-or-both/ . Sioui, Linda. “The Huron-Wendat Craft Industry from the 19th Century to Today.” Musée McCord Museum, 2007. Retrieved March 26, 2022 from http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/scripts/printtour.php?tourID=cw_huronwendat_en&Lang=2 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nova Scotia (not certain), Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Micmac (Mi'kmaq) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055589
label: USNM Number
content: E278196D-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mat