Mans Shirt Seminole people Native American commerical textiles

Man’s Shirt

Seminole people, Native American

About 1930

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Four spruce root lugs one broken Canvas patch Circular spruce root patch made like the bottom of a basket Alternate plaiting and twining weave No colors
Black and white photograph of four Native American women wearing jingle dress regalia and bandana face coverings Golden Gate Bridge in background
Truncated cone shape the flat top showing the 4 wide 58 strips of bark used as a foundation The weaving is double the inside much coarser than the outside
Full sized Kiowa cradle buffalo hide beaded in a background of turquoise with stylized floral and triangle designs in colors of red white dark green cobalt and greasy yellow Inside of cradle lined in mattress ticking Separate hide pieces attached at the top of cradle and beaded with two diamond designs of the same colors as the cradle is tacked down to the boards with red painted round brass buttons and hide dangles with metal cones Cradle is attached to thick boards with upper half painted in blue red and yellow and brass tacks following the color designs