breechcloth

breechcloth

breechcloth

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Date Made or Date Range: /1915
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Other Notes

Man's breechcloth, made from black broadcloth in a long, unseamed rectangle. Top ends and part of side edge are bound with blue satin ribbon. There is an edging of opaque white beads along bound edge - every other bead is attached at right angles to beads along the edge of the material. On the front, there is a border pattern consisting of a transverse line of opaque white beads, with small triangles of the same beads worked along the top of the line. Beading is with cotton thread.;;

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Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: III-I-1045 b
Collection Narratives and Histories

1915/07/01 - 1915/09/30, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, (Waugh) Two breechcloths, the most heavily beaded is a man's; the other a youth's. Mrs. John Gibson.

GKS Reference Number: 24386
Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184