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dress

human history
  • Description

    Dress

    Made from cotton textile and thread, and glass beads. A loose weave. A rectangular shape when laid flat, a inner seam is on the reverse for a draw string to pass through to secure the dress to the body. Cotton textile is dyed an indigo blue. There are pink, white, and blue beads are sewn to the top of the dress. The bottom of the dress has 2 rows of white beads. Fringed tassels run along the bottom of the dress, the top of the tassels have beads in red, white, blue, yellow, and pink

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1953.32.71
  • Accession Date
    11 Feb 1953
  • Other Id

    33477 (ethnology)

  • Department

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