Bobbin lace handkerchief

Titles: Bobbin lace handkerchief (Supplied title)

Description: A bobbin made handkerchief, possibly Dakota or Ojibwe, circa the late 19th to early 20th century. It has a round linen center with border of continual bobbin lace in a floral and leaf motif joined with braids decorated with picots, wheatears, woven spiders and mesh fillings. Collected by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple.

Dates

• Not earlier than 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.) (Creation)

Creation

• collected by: Whipple, Henry Benjamin

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1947

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

• 14 1/2 inches diameter

Subjects

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