Home tanned hide, smoked and unsmoked to give tan coloured body and white cuffs, collar and fringes. Porcupine quills dyed blue and red, as well as undyed white. DIA TMS record notes: "Tanned moose (?) and caribou hide, porcupine quills."

Could only see back at time of study due to its being on display. The coat has aslightly box-like shape, not being tightly fitted, yet shaped. The center back seam and side back seams have quilled and fringed decorations to the waist, as does the center sleeve seam. It falls to the upper thigh. Quillwork of several different techniques, including rosette with radiating rows and edging stitch, panels of loomwoven quillwork, wrapped fringes and single zigzag technique, as well as twisted stem technique, on floral motifs on cuffs.

DIA TMS notes: "Tailored after an American or European model, decorated with delicate loom porcupine quillwork in geometric designs (hourglass, stepped pyramid, cross, checkerboard, pinwheel, etc.). Also decorated partially down center and side back seams with five-eighths inch band of alternating red, white and blue triangles. Quill embroidery in floral designs on cuffs. Buttons at front opening and attaching cuff edge to sleeve at sleeve seam are covered with concentric circles of red, white and blue quillwork. The collar, lapels, center front opening and pocket openings are edged with quills. Leather fringes, partially bound with quills are apparent over shoulders, down sleeve seams, at lower edge of jacket, down center back and side back seams, and at intervals around collar. Applied separately are disks of quillwork at shoulder blades. The disks are three and one-eighth inches in diameter, with quilled fringes hanging below and attached in scallops above."

DIA exhibit text, DIA TMS record dates coat to 1835.

Formerly in the collection of M.G. Chandler, who originally acquired the coat from Stephen Gale.

Cory Willmott took photos of this item on exhibit after GRASAC team had gone; Crystal Migwans took detailed photos while GRASAC team was examining other items in the gallery.

Good images are not yet available for this item, as it was on exhibit at the time of the GRASAC visit and not on the list of objects to discuss. Cory Wilmott created a GKS profile after the visit. A DIA Inventory photograph was later added by Kelly Konieczki as a temporary place-holder image. KK also added all available information about the item from TMS after the visit, however did not research its supplementary files.