Denver Art Museum

Painted white hide shift dress with seed bead decorations at bottom of chest flap and between panels at hem. Painted motifs at waist, hip and hem consisting of horizontal lines, scallops and alternating triangles and rectangles. Leather thongs at…

Home tanned hide dress with two side seams, added fringed flap at center front. Fringes at sides and hem. Straps and front flap decorated with seed and cut beads in linear motifs and swastikas.

This pair of sleeves is made from red stroud with woolen tape trim in blue and green, bordered with a white seed bead linear motif.

The body of this blue stroud strap dress is made with the grain going sideways and the selvedge used as decorative motif at hem and bottom of chest flap. The straps and an extension to the hem are made of red stroud with the selvedge showing…