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Trade bead necklace with additional mescal beans
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Mescal bean necklace interspersed with glass and white beads, strung on fine wire
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Necklace with mescal beans, bear claws, and turtle vertebra / Wolf Robe Hunt

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Curatorial Remarks

Wolf Robe Hunt was a jeweler that lived outside of Tulsa, and they became ostracized from the Acoma. He wrote a book on horses of Acoma, and he was ostracized because he said things that he was not allowed to talk about. He made jewelry for Indians and non-Indians.

Tags: necklace, turtle, bear claw
People: Acoma, Wolf Robe Hunt
Places: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Purpose: commercial sale, domestic use

From interviews with Dr. Garrick Bailey, 2018-2020 University of Tulsa, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

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Title(s): 
Necklace with mescal beans, bear claws, and turtle vertebra
Creator(s): 
Wolf Robe Hunt (Collection)
Solomon McCombs (Artist)
Culture: 
Native American; Acoma
Date: 
1960s
Materials/Techniques: 
claw (bear), bean (mescal), glass, hide, turtle
Classification: 
Ethnographic Objects
Object Type: 
Necklace
Credit Line: 
Gift of Margarita McCombs
Accession No: 
84.2285
Previous Number(s): 
TL1982; 8427.2285; 36044
Department: 
Anthropology
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