Pincushion
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Jun 1963
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Nevada E. Schmidt
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Heart-shaped, fully stuffed, purple velvet front, pink cotton back, bound around edge in red cotton cloth, heavily beaded in medium sized clear and light blue glass beads around the edge where are hanging loops, and a perched bird in the center. Type of object copied from and mostly made for the tourist trade. "Cloth, beads, ribbon, cardboard (?). Hanging pincushion of purple velvet over cardboard (?), backed with pink glazed cotton, with a border of red silk ribbon. Hanging loop at top. Numerous loops of tubular glass beads at base. Central design of a bird on a branch, in crystal beads. Edging of heavy crystal beading, done on neutral cotton." Ruth H. Whitehead, Nova Scotia Museum, 12/4/1978."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nova Scotia, 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: 246936
label: USNM Number
content: E402099-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pin Cushion