Navy wool broadcloth, red cotton cloth, coarse white cotton cloth, (muddy brown mottled fabric: cotton warp, wool weft--Cory to add proper name); size 11 seed beads (mustard yellow and dusty rose); gray wool tape

Each made of single piece of wool cloth with attached flap of [unknown] fabric. Was once sewn from cuff all the way to the top edge. Seam between wool and flap material is overlapped and sewn with one row of running stitch and one row of hem stitch. Fully lined with coarse white cotton. Outer edge of attached flap and cuff bound with red cotton.

from bottom of cuff: two rows of otter tail, one row zizags, two sets of sky dome motifs

Collected by Albert G. Heath from the Odawa in Michegan in 1918.

Heath, Albert G.; Collected. Albert Heath was a Chicago area artifact collector who also maintained a second home at Cross Village, Michigan, where he became vitally interested in Odawa people and collected a number of objects.

A small book about the Heath collection was also published by the Loan Museum (Ann McMullen).

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)