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Piegan shirts with heavy ermine fringes and human scalps.
Gathered in 1903, it’s the typical model worn by the Blackfeet Indians from 1880 on.
Although the shoulder and arm straps are embroidered with seed pearls using fill stitches, the designs are very similar to the porcupine quill trimming found near the tribe during the period preceding their transfer to the reservations.
These handmade articles, often called weasel tail shirts, were considered medicine bundles and as such were preserved and passed on according to the ritual.
