This shirt is a western style man’s long sleeved collared shirt. The majority of it is made of a dark red calico with a blue printed design. There is beading in three different sections on the shirt: two long strips of rectangular beading attached to the shoulders of the shirt, and a thicker rectangular patch starting at the collarbone and reaching down to around the belly button. At the bottom of each rectangular section of beading are several red felt tassels. The glass beadwork is quite complex but there is a definite pattern to it. Beadwork is done in rows of red or green hearts, and blue and pink stars with a white background with blue ribbon trim. The beaded sections are sewn onto the shirt, but the front panel has buttons that can be undone in order to take the shirt on and off.

Catalog card

Based on both museum documentation as well as individually conducted research

Catalog card attributes item to Ojibwe culture of Great Lakes