Coat

Dance jacket made from ermine pelts with decorative beadwork. Of a style similar to Russian and American military uniforms (Kaplan and Barsness, 1986 p. 207, referencing a similar jacket, NA10516) likely showing their influence. Ermine pelts are white with black tail tips and attached to a backing of red cloth. The pelts are studded with white, black, and red pompoms throughout the jacket. The cuffs, shoulders, collar, frontal bib, and lower hem are made of red cloth with sinuous, floral beadwork in white, green, yellow, light blue, and dark blue beads. Each section of red cloth is framed with a thin, white band and trimmed with black cloth.