Shoulder Bag
CultureCherokee or Creek, Southeast Woodlands region
Dateca. 1820-1830
MediumWool cloth and yarn, cotton cloth and piping, glass beads, and silk ribbon
DimensionsOverall: 27 3/4 × 14 inches (70.49 × 35.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of Lee Lyon in memory of Joanne Lyon
Object number2015.26.6
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionBandolier with bead embroidery on wool cloth foundation, designs consist of various scrolling geometric shapes and forms.ProvenanceWilliam Spruce Macay, Salisbury, North Carolina;
To Miss Louise Neave;
Her gift to the Rowan Museum, Salisbury, North Carolina;
With James C. Garner and Beatrice Medicine, Southern California;
Joanne and Lee Lyon, Aspen, CO;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas
City, MO, 2015.
Gaylord Torrence, ed. "Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art” (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2020), 105.
Information about a particular artwork or image, including provenance information,
is based upon historic information and may not be currently accurate or complete.
Research on artwork and images is an ongoing process, and the information about a
particular artwork or image may not reflect the most current information available to the Museum.
If you notice a mistake or have additional information about a particular artwork or image,
please e-mail provenance@nelson-atkins.org.
