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Breechcloth

Object Number:86-20-10
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Ojibwa (uncertain)
Provenience: North America
Great Lakes
Culture Area: Northeast Culture Area
Date Made: 1875-1925
Early Date: 1875
Late Date: 1925
Section:American
Materials:Fiber
Glass
Height: 0.5 cm
Length: 160 cm
Width: 43.8 cm
Credit Line:Gift of W. Disston Anderson, Class of 42, 1986

Description

Two panels of black cloth, one edged with red the other with green, connected by a piece of brown floral cloth (black cloth panels are backed with red and brown checked cloth). Beaded floral motifs on black panels in yellow, blue, green, orange, pink and white beads.

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