Shirt

38-8-6

From: United States of America

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 38-8-6
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Arapaho (uncertain)
Provenience United States of America
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buckskin | Bead | Hair
Description

Youth's. Buckskin; neck cut out square in front with tie-points. V-back; sleeves sewed up but sides of shirt open; beaded strips in front, shoulder to waist and on sleeves; knife case made by sewing beaded patch below neck; beading red, yellow, dark blue and green on white ground; "Scalplock" fringes of human hair along beaded strips.

Credit Line Gift of Rodman Wanamaker III, 1938

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