Strap Dress Ensemble with Dress, Sleeves and Leggings

Strap Dress Ensemble with Dress, Sleeves and Leggings

ET951B-0

Strap dress ensemble composed of blue woolen and cotton cloth dress, blue woolen cloth sleeves and red leggings of inferior woolen cloth. Trimmed with tubular and seed glass beads and woolen tape. The straps are decorated with floral applique beadwork.

Technical diagram by Cory Willmott.

1900-1930

Anishinaabe

White Earth Reservation

Note that in all photos of this ensemble, the sleeves are positioned upside down. That is, the top edge of the sleeves are laid next to the straps with the flaps falling back away from the dress. However, if the ensemble were worn, we would be looking at the back of these sleeves with the flaps falling down behind the straps.

Blue "union" cloth (wool and cotton blend), red woolen twill, cotton fabric, velvet ribbon, tubular glass beads, rick rack trim, silk ribbon, acetate ribbon, shell belt buckle.

From Rev. Frederick W. Smith (ca. 1849 - 1932), an Ojibwa preacher at White Earth Reservation under Bishop Whipple. There is a photograph of him in the Bishop Whipple collection (Collection III.40.259) of MNHS. Smith's wife Sophie was a beadwork artist.

strap dress

47.22759, -95.72049 (N 47°13′39″ W 95°43′14″)

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strap dress ensemble