Black wool broadcloth, red silk ribbon, pale pink/cream (?) silk ribbon, size 10 glass seed beads (white, mustard yellow, light brown, clear dark, green, dark periwinkle, dusty rose, salmon (white lined), greasy yellow, medium green, clear yellow, navy)

Single piece of wool cloth, beaded on front and back in two major sections. Silk edge binding differs from one side to the other: bottom edge red with pink sides looking at one side; pink/cream bottom and red on sides on other side. Beadwork sewn all the way through with stitching visible on back side. One side (here called "the back") two elemenst not in-filled with beads. Beaded lines of in-filling are sometimes not tacked down--just kind of floating. On "front," smaller elements tied to large central element with two rows of white beads.

Each side has large, central abstracted floral/curvilinear design element with four smaller, similar design elements in each corner . Design elements outlined in white.

CW, AMcM examination

circa 1900 (AMcM)

Collected by Harrington, Mark Raymond.

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)