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Trade bead necklace created with mescal beans
Unknown
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Unknown
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Trade bead necklace with additional mescal beans / Unknown

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Essay/Description

necklace - seeds

Curatorial Remarks

Tags: mescal beans
People: Otoe-Missouria
Places: Southern Plains, Oklahoma
Purpose: ceremonial use

From interviews with Dr. Garrick Bailey, 2018-2020 University of Tulsa, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
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Title(s): 
Trade bead necklace with additional mescal beans
Creator(s): 
Unknown
Culture: 
Native American; Otoe-Missouria
Date: 
19th century
Materials/Techniques: 
bean (mescal)
Classification: 
Ethnographic Objects
Object Type: 
Necklace
Accession No: 
80.8
Previous Number(s): 
8026.8; 35223
Department: 
Anthropology
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