[Restricted Object] Earring (one from a pair)

Unknown people (Woodlands)
Great Lakes Woodlands
Woodlands

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collected about 1820-1860

Mother of Pearl, metal, wire, and silver

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly

22.3.3913

Geography

Site Looted: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Personal Adornment

Research Area

Funerary Objects

Native American: Woodlands

Native American

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by "an old sea captain," about 1820-1860; to General John Hewston, California; bequeathed to his niece, Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly (1851-1927), West Newton, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1922.

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