Wool, silk

The skirt is made of two pieces of napped navy blue plain weave wool, seamed together at the selvages, which are set perpendicular to the skirt length. The ends of the fabric are seamed to form the center front seam. The top upper section is folded over to hide selvage and selvage seam, and to form fold for drawstring closure.

Silk plain weave ribbon is appliqued along the center front and two horizontal bands in two geometric designs: (1) colored stepped bars forming V's within tiangles with curved upper sides forming a scalloped line; (2) two elliptical petals forming V's within triangles as in (1). The vertical applique bands are olive green and cream; the horizontal bands are salmon pink on ivory. The lower edges of the horizontal applique bands are cut in a zigzag, as if pinked. The lower edges of the horizontal borders are edged with ochre binding.

According to Pohrt: wool trade cloth, hand sewn.
The skirt is not salvage to salvage, it is two lengths, it is double the amount of fabric that would normally be used for a skirt (C. W. May 13/10).
The skirt is wrap around skirt, and then extra length is required to fold it down for decoration. (D. Penney May 13/ 10). The salvages are inside, sewn together, to create extra length. It is remarkable that the salvage is not incorporated into the outer design. D. Penney referred to a Potowatomi skirt at the Field Museum. According to the Pohrt notes, this skirt was to be worn with a blouse in the collection, Pohrt #775.

Pohrt purchased skirt from Mary B. Shurtleff, Cross Village, MI