Shirt
A Blackfoot buckskin shirt that once belonged to Crowfoot. It is stained with ochre and painted with brown stripes, trimmed with glass beads, quill-wrapped hair, fine red trade-cloth, ermine fur tassels, red-dyed feathers and brass bells. The dye used to stain the feathers is the same substance used to dye tradecloth.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 1000/1904/1
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Clothing and accessories
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Material
- deerskintradeclotherminefeathershair quill hide
- Common Name
- shirt
- Simple Name
- shirt
- Production County
- Northern Plains, Alberta
- Production Country
- Canada
- Production Year High
- 1870s
