Bead-Pattern
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jun 1913
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Black velvet upon which are placed a number of bead patterns known to the Chippewa, and which appear to be aboriginal patterns. Photo and description in BAE Bulletin 86, plate 79. This beadwork sampler was made by Nawajibigokwe. Description on pp. 183-4."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 3.09, p. 58, in Anderson, Marcia G. 2017. A bag worth a pony: the art of the Ojibwe bandolier bag. Illustration caption notes "Nawajibigokwe (Central Rock Woman, or Mrs. Wawweyaycumig) of White Earth made this sampler of traditional line stitches for Frances Densmore. They include jumping pattern [right, second from top]; block pattern, or fret [left, second from top; left, fifth from top]; diamonds [right, fourth from top]; versions of otter track [left, top; left, fourth from top; right, top]. Densmore does not name the other stitches."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055524
label: USNM Number
content: E278104-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Beadwork