Beaded mortar board featuring Seal of the Shinnecock Nation
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Title
Beaded mortar board featuring Seal of the Shinnecock Nation
Description
Graduation in Native communities is a family accomplishment—parents, aunties, grandparents, uncles, siblings, nieces, and cousins all encourage and help provide for students to graduate. Graduations are joyous occasions, and all the extended family and friends want to attend the event and celebrate. This exquisite, beaded mortar board speaks to the accomplishment of the graduate and distinguishes them as a proud member of their Indigenous community. Such a liberating action would have been forbidden during the 19th- and 20th- century boarding school and residential school system, when any sign of being Indigenous (hair, jewelry, clothing, language) was stripped from the child.
Creator
Tarrant, Tohanash (Shinnecock, Hopi, Ho-Chunk)
Source
New York State Museum, E-2019.22.01A-B
Date
2020
Rights
Tohanash Tarrant
Format
Glass beads, fabric seal, wampum, tassel. 9.5 x 9.5 in.
Citation
Tarrant, Tohanash (Shinnecock, Hopi, Ho-Chunk), “Beaded mortar board featuring Seal of the Shinnecock Nation,” accessed April 26, 2024, https://indigenoushistoryandart.omeka.net/items/show/40.