Wooden bobbin

Titles: Wooden bobbin (Supplied title)

Description: Wooden bobbin, one of a set of ten used for lace making. Dated circa 1890-1926 based on the dates Sybil Carter worked with Dakota and Ojibwe women on the lace making program until her death and then dissolution of program. See 1877.A-D, F-J for others.

Dates

• Approximately 1890 - Approximately 1926 (Sybil Carter began developing the Episcopal Church lace manufacturing work with American Indians in Minnesota in 1890. The lace program continued well after Carter’s death in 1908 and eventually dissolved in 1926.) (Use)

Creation

• collected by: Whipple, Henry Benjamin

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1877.E

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of the Sibley House Association of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 5 inches length
• 1 1/16 inches circumference

Subjects

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