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Blackfoot Indian woman's red wool dress decorated with cowrie shells and beads, circa 1880. Yoke area decorated with rows of shells, lower row of shells hanging on fringe of white beads. Two decorative rows of green ribbon at hem of dress, armholes decorated with green and blue ribbon, neck decorated with green ribbon. Yoke and hem edged with cotton cloth. Leather tie at neck. Autry Museum of the American West.

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two pieces of beaded cloth are laying on the ground

A BLACKFEET BEADED CLOTH DRESS c. 1900 decorated across the yoke with bands of beadwork in various shades of - Available at 2007 Dallas, TX - American...

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a blue headband with flowers and checkered squares on the side, hanging from strings

Woman's dress yoke part/fragment, Kainai Blackfoot (Kainah/Blood). Cotton cloth, glass bead/beads. Alberta; Canada. Formerly owned by George Crawler (Assiniboine, ca. 1885-1980); collected from him in 1935 by George Heye and Norman K. Luxton (1876-1962, a newspaper editor and collector) during a trip to Alberta reserves. NMAI

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an embroidered coat with fringes and beads on the shoulders is displayed in front of a black background

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NMAI_Woman's "Indian Cloth" Dress (Thimble Fringe) by catface3, via Flickr

"Identity by Design," exhibit of Native American Women's Dress, at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. The dangling trim on this fringe is made of thimbles. The dress is made of "Indian cloth", a scarlet trade fabric. "Indian Cloth: The Gloucestershire region of England produced most of the woolen cloth for the Indian trade. Known as "saved-list," "stroud," or "Indian" cloth, it often came in dark blue or scarlet. The term "saved-list"…

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