white and dark green glass beads, red cotton, navy satin trim

Made of red cotton edged with navy satin that is bordered with beads - green beads on the inner border, white beads on the outer border. Shirt has a pointed collar. The yoke is made of a panel of cotton and trimmed with satin and beads. Sewn onto each shoulder, two panels of cotton with pointed ends and trimmed with satin and beads are sewn to the front and back of the shoulders. On the back of the shirt below the collar is a pintuck. On sleeves above cuffs there are pin-tucks. Cuffs do not fol dover, they are ornamented and have a snap closure at the wrists where thicker blue satin that is bordered with beads has been sewn. At the bottom of the shirt, the sides have 18 cm slits which are also edged in blue satin bordered with beads. Yoke only sewn on one side. Shirt opens beneath the yoke with one hook and eye at the chest, and one snap closure at the collar. Shoulder panels are sewn at the top of the shoulder, and at the pointed ends on the front and back.

Quadrilateral shapes with large cross-hatch design at the end of the yoke, and at each pointed end of the shoulder panels (front and back)

catalog record

W.A. Ritchie, Curator of Anthropology, Rochester Museum of Arts and Scineces as intermediary - Exchange with the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences in 1949. "We are sending you today by express prepared a collection of Seneca Indian articles made on New York reservations during W.P.A. times under the Indian Arts Project" - Correspondence from W.A. Ritchie to J.O. Brew 6/29/1949.

Visit to Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) of Wahsontiio Cross and Alexandra Nahwegahbow, assisted by Meredith Vasta on 11-12 August 2015.