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Needlepoint design showing a bouquet of pink and purple flowers, sewn on perforated paper. This needlepoint was made by a Native American student at the Pottawatomie Baptist Mission. Fannie Simerwell, a Baptist missionary, taught the students domestic skills, including sewing and needlepoint.
Date: between 1837 and 1854
Item Number: 432689
Call Number: 1982.851.9
KSHS Identifier: 1982.851.9
Collections - Museum
Date - 1830s
Date - 1840s
Date - 1850s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Commercial Decorative Art - Picture - Needlework
People - American Indians - Missions - Pottawatomie Baptist Mission
People - American Indians - Tribes - Potawatomi
People - Notable Kansans - Simerwell, Fanny, 1789-1855
Thematic Time Period - Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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