Details
A SIOUX BEADED AND FRINGED HIDE WARRIOR'S SHIRT
With open sides and applied beaded panels over the shoulders and along sleeves with cross motifs alternating with hourglass motif in red, green, yellow, translucent blue, and geodesic metal beads against a white beaded ground, and rectangular tabs attached at collar with linear and bar patterns with similar beads, all beaded panels trimmed with tufts of bound hair, hide with lower portion painted yellow and top portion painted green
29½in. (74.9cm.) long
With open sides and applied beaded panels over the shoulders and along sleeves with cross motifs alternating with hourglass motif in red, green, yellow, translucent blue, and geodesic metal beads against a white beaded ground, and rectangular tabs attached at collar with linear and bar patterns with similar beads, all beaded panels trimmed with tufts of bound hair, hide with lower portion painted yellow and top portion painted green
29½in. (74.9cm.) long
Provenance
Collected by Annie Hale Wetherell of Fall River, MA during her travels between 1880-1915.