breechcloth
breechcloth
breechcloth
Odawa, navy blue cloth breechcloth, with seed beads in a symmetrical floral and star motifs. Collected by Albert G. Heath in Michigan in 1918.
Odawa: ''AMcM and CW are inclined to think that this piece is Potawatomi or influenced by Potawatomi due to white outlining, color selection, type of motifs, and stitiching/contouring inside elements.
NMAI records and physical examination by Cory Willmott and Ann McMullen, July 2007.
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Navy blue saved list cloth (1 inch list), size 11 glass seed beads (white, medium green, turquoise, clear dusty rose, clear red, navy, greasy yellow, clear medium green), thin pasteboard/cardboard (commercial, has colors and some printing, mostly washed out)
Single piece of cloth with list visible on both ends; beaded design on only one side. On front, outline of design lightly marked with whitish/tannish material (flour paste?); beadwork backed (on opposite side of cloth) with
Design symmetrical from vertical center, consistes of discrete design elements linked by white lines; there are three rather elaborate motifs on center spine and four slightly simpler motifs on either side.
NMAI records from acquisition
Provenance
Heath, Albert G.; Collected. Albert Heath was a Chicago area artifact collector who also maintained a second home at Cross Village, Michigan, where he became vitally interested in Odawa people and collected a number of objects.
About This GRASAC Record
This record was created on site at NMAI by the GRASAC members listed below. Ann McMullen and Pat Nietfeld of NMAI supported the research onsite. Cory Willmott's research was funded by a grant from the American Philosophical Society. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville provided Cory with an RA, Ceara Horsley, in Fall 2008 to work on GRASAC data entry. (CH)
45.6426, -85.036
Michigan, USA