Artist:Red River MetisYanktonai, Nakota, Sioux
Medium: Buckskin, porcupine quills, garnet beads, pony beads, seed beads, thread
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Dates:early 19th century
Dimensions: 39 x 52 in. (99.1 x 132.1 cm)
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Accession Number: 50.67.7a
Image: 50.67.7a_SL1.jpg,
Catalogue Description: Man's dress shirt with matching leggings (50.67.7b-c). A lack of ornamentation suggests it may be unfinished (compare this sparse ornamentation to 50.67.4). While some of the wider fringes at the sides are pierced, the shirt has no loom-woven quillwork or ornamentation on the cuffs. At the neck flap, however, there is an outline of blue beads and at intervals below, an additional two and three bead linear arrangement. There are simply decorated rosettes of concentric rings on either side with centers of plain white skin. Going outward from these centers are rings of quills: light blue; white; red; and a combination of blue and yellow. Following the quills is a ring of white skin, and an outer circle of blue beads. When cleaned in 1992, a fringe damaged by old insect damage became detached at the center of the proper left shoulder. The edges of the torn section were backed and reattached.