hexagonal beaded pouch with heart design
1870-1910
Iroquois people
76.231
Not currently on view
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Artwork Details
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Object Types
Dimensions
7-1/4 x 7 x 1/2 in. (without handle) 10-1/4 x 7 x 1/2 in. (with handle)
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Credit Line
Emma Harter Sweetser Fund
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Color Palette
Provenance
Collection of Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink [1861-1936] {1}; (Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc, New York); purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art 1976. {1} Ernestine Shumann-Heink nee Rossler was a Bohemian born opera contralto and is the inspiration for the buxom opera singer trope in American popular culture. She was forced to return to the stage after losing her fortune in the 1929 stock market crash, and was forcued to continue preforming until 1932
Gallery Labels
The form of this bag is derived from European examples.
By the 1700s American Indian artists in the East and Midwest had begun to decorate imported European cloth, rather than animal skin, for items of dress.
The intention of beaded dress items is to beautify and enhance an owner's status.
American Indian beadwork, in general, is decorative rather than symbolic, and most designs are geometric and floral.
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