Cloth Fragment
- Object Name:
- Cloth Fragment
- Object ID:
- 2017.500.11
- Place of Origin:
- Haverhill, MA
- Date:
- circa 1697
- Description:
- Textile fragment. Strip of white linen wrapped around paper card and pinned in place. Pencil inscription on card, "This cloth was made / by Hannah Dustin / who was captured by the / Indians in Haverhill Mass 1697 / and brought to Penacook / where she killed 10 of her captors / and took their scalps and put them / in the towel of which this is a piece."
- Material:
- Textile
Linen - Dimensions:
- W-0.7 L-33 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 20 objects in collection of relics found in first-floor classroom in New Hampshire Historical Society building at 6 Eagle Square (Hamel Center), Concord, in 2017. Acquired by NHHS education department c. 2010 from an unidentified New Hampshire school teacher who was visiting the museum with a class.
All of the inscriptions appear to date from the 1890s. Four of the objects were given to the collector by Mrs. Leroy S. Brown (Geneva May Philbrick Brown) (1855-1947) of Cambridge, MA; she lived in Cambridge from 1884 to 1906. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Dustin, Hannah (1657-1736)
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