An Early Blackfoot Beaded And Fringed Hide Dress

stitched in white, yellow, light and dark blue glass pony beads, with a concentric linear pattern across the front and back of the bodice, decorated with "elk tooth" pendants and cut hide suspension strung with tubular glass beads on the yoke, and with red and blue trade cloth patches on the skirt; the neck overlaid with red cloth and sinew sewn with green and yellow glass beadwork.

Acquired from Jim Hart, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, 1984

The Cincinnati Art Museum: “A Window on the Past,” October 18, 2002 – March 30, 2003

John W. Painter, American Indian Artifacts: The John Painter Collection, 1991, p. 162, 164, no. 208, illustrated

Colin F. Taylor, Yupika - The Plains Indian Woman’s Dress, 1997, p. 55, illustrated

John W. Painter, A Window on the Past: Early Native American Dress from the John Painter Collection, 2002, Cincinnati Art Museum, pp. 48 – 49, no. 41, illustrated