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Bracelet with American eagle design
Bracelet with American eagle design

Bracelet with American eagle design

Dateca. 1900
Label TextPrized as old heirlooms or, today, as wearable art, silver bracelets replaced pre-contact ornaments made from copper, horn and antler when silver coins came with the Spanish expeditions in the late 18th century. Silver ornaments were initially engraved with Native motifs or later with the American Eagle, scroll and foliate forms.
Object number74.35
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, American Art: The Stories We Carry, Oct. 20, 2022 - ongoing.
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions1 1/2 in. (3.81 cm) Diam.: 2 1/8 in. L.: 7 1/4 in.
MediumHammered and engraved silver coin
Bracelet, American eagle design
Native American
ca. 1900
Object number: 74.36
Dead or Alive
Nancy Worden
1997
Object number: 98.29
Photo: Paul Macapia
Charles Edenshaw
ca. 1890
Object number: 91.1.130
Cedar bark neck rings
Native American, Kwakwaka'wakw
late 19th to early 20th century
Object number: 91.1.14
Red cedar bark neck ring
Native American, Kwakwaka'wakw
ca. 1900
Object number: 91.1.15
Red cedar bark neck ring
Native American, Kwakwaka'wakw
ca. 1900
Object number: 91.1.16
Red cedar bark neck ring
Native American, Kwakwaka'wakw
ca. 1930
Object number: 91.1.17
Ivory charm (fake)
Native American
1970's?
Object number: SC91.1.139
Photo: Paul Macapia
Native American
ca. 1870
Object number: 91.1.50
S'eik daakeit (pipe)
Native American
ca. 1820
Object number: 91.1.104
Wooden Pipe (mythic creatures)
Native American
ca. 1870
Object number: 91.1.115