German Silver "Buttons" Or Brooches (6)
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: Notes from Sturtevant's personal catalog: "German silver "buttons" (6) - brooches, ea. 3/4" diam, convex, with catch across central hole; 5 sewn to crepe paper backing as sold (to facilitate counting-rows of 5). Bought 4/30/1958 from maker, Makaseah, Rte. 1, Shawnee, Okla. 15 cents each. Called Oakhahonakhe. 26 from same batch given to 7 Seneca women, 5 on Allegany Res (4 ea.), 2 on Catt. Res. (3 ea.), June 1958. "
label: Notes
content: These types of circular/disk brooches are sometimes referred to as "washer brooches", and are used decoratively on clothing, often in multiples. Some examples are illustrated in VanStone, James W. "Indian Trade Ornaments in the Collections of Field Museum of Natural History." Fieldiana. Anthropology, no. 13 (1989): 1–40. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29782571. They are still being made and sold; example from 2023: https://web.archive.org/web/20230208011649/https://wanderingbull.com/shop/jewelry/brooches/washer-brooches/ . The National Museum of the American Indian has German silver brooches in their collections, Catalog # 22/9628, which their records identify as having been made by Mac [a.k.a. Mak/Mack] Makaseah, Kickapoo, Oklahoma, b. 1884.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kickapoo (Kiikaapoi, Kikapú)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2049174
label: USNM Number
content: E437788-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Brooch