Brooch and earring set
Jewelry set owned by the wife of Moses K. Armstrong (1832-906), U.S. congressman and surveyor of territory in what is now Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The dyed horsehair brooch is woven into a flower shape with six petals. The petals and center are woven separately and then tied together at the back. The matching pendant earrings consist of three-petaled top segments attached to larger, six-petaled bottom segments. Used in the 1870s.
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