Dress Item Number: 46.96.13 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
This is a dark blue wool cloth dress with three bands of ribbon trim, red and white, along the bottom hem and sleeves. Individual teeth are tied in a yoke pattern on the front and back of the dress. The dress has rows and circles of brass and tin sequins on the skirt. Purple, ribbed silk binds the neck. The bottom hem has geometric cut edge so that it dips lower on each side than the front and back, a reference to historical hide dresses where the legs of the animal would be kept and oriented to the sides of the dress.
Credit Line
Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund
Item History
- Made between 1868 and 1933
What
- Name
- Dress
- Identification Number
- 46.96.13
- Type of Item
- dress
- Material
- wool cloth, elk tooth, silk ribbon, brass metal and tin sequin
- Overall
- length 49.625 in, width 36.25 in
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1868 and 1933
Other
- Classification
- Clothing