17th C. Native American Atasi Glass Trade Bead Necklace

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Sep 9, 2021

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• Lot Description
  Native American, Southern United States, Alabama, Macon County, Muscogee / Creek tribe, Atasi people, ca. 17th to 19th century CE. A fabulous collection of glass trade beads made by Europeans to trade with the Native American tribes in the Southern part of the United States. This strand is comprised of over 200 red and blue glass seed beads and strung in modern times in a symmetrical arrangement as a wearable piece, and the larger cobalt beads are rounded barrel shapes. The necklace is long enough to wear wrapped as two strands and is a very pretty piece. Dr. R.P. Burke (1885-1959) excavated and collected these beads from a site in the 1930s. Size of necklace: 60" L (76.2 cm); largest beads: 0.4" L x 0.2" W (1 cm x 0.5 cm)
  
  Atasi, also spelled Otasse, Atusse, Auttossee, were a branch of the Creek / Muscogee tribes along the Tallapoosa River from about 1560 to 1813 CE and moved periodically due to soil and river conditions. On November 29th, 1813, the Atasi people joined in the Creek War (Red Stick War) and in 1814 they refused to sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, and many migrated to Florida and joined the Seminole Nation. After the First Seminole War in 1818, Creek and Seminole peoples, displaced by war and American settlers returned to Alabama along the Sougahatchee creek in Lee County. Between the early 1800s and the 1832 Treaty of Cusseta, the Creek nation had lost most of their land to white settlers through laws, pressures, violence, and treaties. The Treaty of Cusseta ceded all of Creek land east of the Mississippi to the United States, with meager land claims granted to individual Creeks. Conflicts between white settlers and remaining Creek landowners intensified, and in 1835 the US government forcibly relocated most of the remaining Creeks to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. The Atasi sites along the Tallapoosa and Saguache rivers were demolished by quarries and other modern developments. These beads are likely possessions that were left behind during the sad Trail of Tears march.
  
  Provenance: ex-Bennett's Premiere Auctions, Ashland, Ohio, USA; ex-Dr. R.P. Burke collection
  
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  #166690

  Condition

  Wearable and strung in modern times on a modern filament wire. Chips and pitting to glass beads as expected with age and use. Mineral and earthen deposits scattered throughout.
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