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      Jennie Bobb and her daughter Nellie Longhat of western Delaware, wearing the feminine traditional Delaware dress, characterized by heavy necklaces , silver pins and moccasins “covered” by pony beads (circa 1910-15).

  A pair of moccasins collected at Hidatsa at the beginning of our century by anthropologist Gilbert Wilson, who was able to avail himself of the collaboration of the elders in the transcribing of the tribe’s history and customs. The disks on the uppers made with porcupine spines are in …

  At the end of the last century, the Utes were wearing clothes very similar to that of many of the tribes of the Plains. In the photos, men are wearing loincloths and leggings: the women, leather or fabric clothing, and two of them are even wearing capes decorated with …

  Typical Crow decorations in deerskin and beads embellish this superb arrow case, realized in raw buckskin with engraved and painted designs. An ornamental pattern is also provided by 2 red and blue pendants attached at the seam of the leg with strips of deerskin. The beaded embroidery is almost …

  Designs embroidered with elk fur on a box of birch bark, most likely by Lorette Huron, around 1860. The human figure is portrayed with the traditional costume: shirt with a scarf and red stockings with garters at the knee. Encouraged by missionaries, the Hurons created many artifacts of that …