beaded lamp pull

unrecorded Ndee (Apache) or Diné (Navajo) artist, artist

beaded lamp pull, 1922–1928

Where object was made: Fort Apache, Arizona, United States

Material/technique: dyeing; thread; braiding; beading

Dimensions:
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 16 x 6 cm length includes string; width of fringe
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 2 3/8 x 6 5/16 in

Credit line: Gift of Eva F. Bennett

Accession number: 2007.1625

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Loom-woven beadwork such as these strips, hatbands, lamp pulls, and napkin rings were produced by Diné (Navajo) and Apache students at the Theodore Roosevelt School in Fort Apache, Arizona. This was a boarding school that sought to strip students of their cultural identities and assimilate them into Euro-American society. Its administrators sold these pieces to fund the school’s daily operations.