beaded panels
beaded panels
beaded panels
Pair of matching beaded panels, presumably intended for sewing on legging. Stylized, beaded floral spray stitched on black stroud, backed with green and red cotton, with blue cotton tape trim.
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Black stroud, backed at one end only with printed green cotton and edge at the same end bound with red cotton. Blue cotton tape trim around remaining 3 edges, outlined with opaque white glass beads. Floral beadwork in opaque white, pale pink, pale blue and bright blue size 10 beads. Edged with blue and rose tape faded coarse silk.
Beads are attached by overlay stitch, strung on and couched with cotton thread.
Stylized floral spray - Central stem, three lanes deep with 6-petaled flower at bottom, top and mid-point. Off-shooting from main stem are 3 other types of stylized flowers.
Intended for sewing on leggings
for women's legging; western style; would have typically been a cone shape that wraps around
CMC collection record.
Provenance
These panels were presented to the National Archives in 1936 by Amy Carr. They were then transferred to National Museum of Man History Division June 30, 1967. History transferred them to Ethnology Division where they became accession # 69/9/7 (III-G-859ab) on March 25, 1969.