Materials

Made of canvas, rick rack, cotton embroidery thread?, cotton thread?

Techniques or Format

Canvas flap top-stitched with rick rack, embroidered with flowers and geese. Machine stitched?

Motifs and Patterns

Upper half of canvas has three eight petal flowers. Lower half of canvas has flower bud at centre with two geese outlined in red thread on either side.

Original and Subsequent Uses

Tent flap used to provide shelter.

Condition: Soiled with dirt and stains, indicating it was well used.

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

NMAI Catalog Card.

Current Location: National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. USA

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 22/4068

Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1954

GKS Reference Number: 26012

How to Cite this Item

Item to be cited by Catalog Number, Collection and Institution.

Record Creation Context

Record created as part of practicum in fall 2008.