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Bracelet, American eagle design

Bracelet, American eagle design

ca. 1900

Native American

Haida

Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C.

Prized 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.
Hammered and engraved silver coin
1 1/2 in. (3.81 cm)
Diam.: 2 1/8 in.
L.: 7 in.
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
74.36
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future.

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