Gorget
Melinda is an American artist and citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation with Austrian-American ancestry, who now lives and works on Dartmoor in the UK.
This piece is an example of machine applique and embroidery on linen fabric.
Old shell gorgets were worn around the neck by ancient Muscogee, and date up to three thousand years old. Molluscs, like the purple mussel freshwater shell, were engraved with motifs, such as the sun in this example, and were found in settlement sites in Oklahoma.
This piece is an example of machine applique and embroidery on linen fabric.
Old shell gorgets were worn around the neck by ancient Muscogee, and date up to three thousand years old. Molluscs, like the purple mussel freshwater shell, were engraved with motifs, such as the sun in this example, and were found in settlement sites in Oklahoma.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 9/2023/2
- Collection Class
- Art non religious figures
- Common Name
- Gorget
- Simple Name
- textile
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-)
- Production Town
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- 2021
- Production Person Initials
- Melinda
- Production Person Surname
- Schwakhofer
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
