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The Florida Ethnographic Collection holds nearly two hundred pieces of Seminole
silverwork. The categories of work include: cold chiseled silver pendants, bodice pieces, a
bracelet, a turban band, a comb back, and silver finger rings. The types of Seminole
silverwork not represented are silver crescent gorgets, armbands, and earrings. Most of the
silverwork was collected in south central Florida during the 1920s to the 1950s by John M.
Goggin, Curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Anthropology Faculty at the
University of Florida, and by William F. Stiles, Curator at the Museum of the American
Indian, NYC.

Seminoles produced silverwork during a period of about 150 years, but archaeological
evidence from the Mississippian Culture in the form of copper discs, personal ornaments,
and ritual objects, points to broader native metalworking traditions prior to European
contact. These pre-contact artifacts are also decorated in the same manner as 18th and
19th century Seminole silverwork: pierced, embossed, or incised. Silver was relatively
uncommon to Seminoles before Spanish importation during the 1500s.l]The Calusa, a
Floridian indigenous group present during early Seminole migration to Florida, produced
silverwork including pendants, gorgets, and beads with Spanish coin silver in 1700s.[21


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