bracelet

bracelet

bracelet

3: PERSONAL ARTIFACTS

ADORNMENT:

Seminole

Multicolored strip of glass seed beads with bead loop at one end and a plastic button at the other end.

Multicolored strip of glass seed beads with bead loop at one end and a plastic button at the other end. The strip is eleven beads wide for most of it’s length, tapering to over four rows at each end to three beads wide. A single strand of dark red beads forms a loop 3/4” on each end, which appears to be strung on to the ends of the same white thread used to weave the strip. The body of the strip is loom woven beadwork with a background color of orange. There is a green, red, and yellow thunderbird design in the center. The bird’s head is turned to the right. The bird is flanked on both sides with a fletched arrow design composed of black and yellow beads that point towards the bird. The design is symmetrical except for the turned bird head. At the end opposite the dark red loop a bright green plastic button is sewn on with white thread. This button and loop could be used to fasten the strip around something. It appears to be the right size to be an adult bracelet. The design appears to be the same on both sides of the piece, other than the button being sewn on the top side.

created for sale to tourists, outsiders /
personal adornment

7” L

3/4” W

1951 1955 own/col

glass seed bead button(plastic) thread(cotton)

woven(loom) strung sewn(hand)

Seminole

EXCEL

Davis, Hilda J. -donation

Davis, Hilda J. anthropological/ethnological
field

1984-06-0030

object

FL

USA

NA

2010 RECAT: Jodine Perkins

2010 RECAT: green plastic button, green, yellow, black, and dark red seed beads match with those used for 1984-06-0029. In addition, identical size and technique. Therefore, although these do not appear to be a set, they may have been made by the same person.

Downs, Dorothy. 1995. Art of the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Indians. p.147-157. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. (on loomed beadwork)

Indiana University/Mathers Museum