Man's breechcloth, made from black broadcloth - a long, unseamed rectangle. Top ends and part of side edge are bound with blue green taffeta ribbon. There is a scalloped border pattern in opaque white beads, with loops where scallops meet filled with translucent tubular glass beads. 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. Beading is with cotton thread.;;
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Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number:
III-I-1045 a
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.
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