common stroud (red); rainbow selvedge (blue); silk ribbon (pink/salmon, green, light blue, dark blue, cream, navy); sz. 11 seed beads (white); cotton thread;

Ribbonwork is not sewn through cloth; beadwork is sewn through cloth; two bead edging; Glass bead motif not usual with ribbonwork leggings (DP and CW). Top edge is bound with ribbon - also not usual. Blue selvedge attached to top as ties. Beadwork: applique four petal flowers and running stitch and edging stitch around edges. Ribbon cut away to expose red stroud in several places. Pendants are made of blue rainbow selvedge in one piece with the ties. Ribbonwork on the leg in two distinct design fields, one from hem to mid-thigh; the other from mid-thigh to top.

Katherine Abass written disertation and essay on ribbonwork with excellent nomenclature for patterns (DP).

Found in PMAE records.

Cory Willmott, Alan Corbiere, Adrianna Grecci Green and David Penney conducted research on site at the Peabody Museum for Archaeology and Ethnology in July 2007 with help from Susan Haskell and Patricia Capone of the PMAE. Cory Willmott's research was funded by a grant from the American Philosophical Society. Al Corbiere was supported through Ruth Phillips's SSHRC Canada Research Chair Funding. An internal grant from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville provided Cory with an RA, Ceara Horsley, for 2009 and 2010 to work on GRASAC data entry. (CW & CH)