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ProvenanceJonathan Holstein, Cazenovia, New York
BibliographyFognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 52.
Gorget
Datec. 1850
MediumSilver
DimensionsOverall (a): 2 × 6 3/8 in. (5.1 × 16.3 cm)
Overall (b): 1 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (3.8 × 8.1 cm)
Overall (c): 1 1/4 × 3 1/4 in. (3.2 × 8.3 cm)
Object numberT0851a-c
Credit LineGift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextSilver adornment became important to the fur trade during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and became an important part of relations between Natives and Europeans for several centuries. Native leaders received crescent shaped gorgets as symbols of alliances and in trade. Hammered in thick, heavy silver these gorgets may have been worn hanging vertically on a string around the neck.ProvenanceJonathan Holstein, Cazenovia, New York
BibliographyFognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 52.
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