red cotton sateen (faded), brown satin ribbon, green cotton tape, mustard yellow and green cotton sateen, glass beads--short, tubular turquoise, navy, transparent, gold; metal bells, hand tanned, unsmoked deer hide thongs/strips that have been tinted/colored red through contact with red fabric; bodice lined with brown and green cotton plaid fabric; beads sewn onto bodice with cotton string

Body of dress is machine sewn; sleeves cut in one piece with the body; entire bodice is lined; skirt is sewn in pieces because fabric is too narrow to create full width; yellow and green strip cut and sewn on top of red skirt fabric; gathered waist; green strips and brown ribbon on sleeves also sewn over red body fabric; neck opening (center front) bound with brown satin ribbon, machine sewn at neck opening but handsewn for front opening; two metal snaps at neck. Front and back bodice have solid panles of tubular beads with thinner stripes (turquoise) over the shoulders; front and back also have bead fringes interspersed at width of about .625 inches, composed of tubular beads and bells strung on pinkish hide thongs.

Beadwork mimics pattern used on Plains/Plateau two-hide dresses: sets of wavy lines/bars. Stripes on bottom of skirt also

1940s AM and CW attribution. NMAI records from collection acquisition state it was presented in 1953. Physical examination by Cory Willmott and Ann McMullen, July 2007.

POresented by Schuster, C. F.

This record was created on site at NMAI by the GRASAC members listed below. Ann McMullen and Pat Nie(?) 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)