Shirt

45-15-254

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-254
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sisseton
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Skin | Quill | Fiber | Glass | Pigment
Technique Tanned | Stained
Description

"The Orphan's shirt", see card, tanned skin, white quill sleeve bands. Quill wrapped hair and buckskin fringes, neck flap faced with red stroud and bordered with white pony beads, upper part of shirt stained with medicine red, a dull red earthy color.

Length 93 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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