Fine broadcloth (scarlet and blue), silk ribbon; wide (pink, pale mint green), narrow (brown, gold, red, navy, gold, pink, dark blue), dark green), "unbleached grubby color" linen lining, sz. 13 seed beads (greasy blue, greasy teal, clear red, dusty rose, medium green, clear medium blue, navy, clear root bear, chalk white, Royal blue, dark brown), sz. 10 seed beads (white, red whitel hearts, clear gold, dusty rose, clear red ) sz. 8 seed beads (opalescent greyish white),

Seam sewn all the way from bottom to top to hold front and back together; Seam between red and blue cloth is overlapped and sewn with several rows of running stitch. This seam is entirely covered on the outside with a row of narrow ribbon surrounded by linear beadwork patterns. Lining attached inside bottom cuffs before the ribbonwork was sewn - stitches go through all layers. Tabs are lined with wide silk ribbon. On the almost all blue side, the tabs are cut from blue cloth, on the blue and red side, the tabs are of red cloth. The linear beadwork is sewn over all seams and around all edges, including the entire side and top edge (very unusual, CW and AM!). All edges (including top edge) are bound with silk and two bead edging stitch, both of various colors, and of various bead sizes. Home-made bows of green ribbon decorate corner between cuffs and start of side flap.

Ribbonwork on cuff consists of three rows of triangles that play on figure ground relationships. Linear beadwork straight lines, rows of running stitch, wavy lines and rows of knot of three beads.

CW; AM

Based on style, material and techniques. (CW)

Museum Purchased.

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