Dakota drawn threadwork table cover

Titles: Dakota drawn threadwork table cover (Supplied title)

Description: A Dakota square, drawn threadwork table cover decorated with drawn threadwork in a repeated star-like pattern and hem-stitched edges, circa the late 19th or early 20th century. Made at the lace school of the Bishop Whipple Mission, Morton, Minnesota.

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: 2002.153.1

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of Ms. Maxine Eidsvig

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 17 1/2 inches length
• 15 1/4 inches width

Subjects

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