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Skirt made of green wool pleated at the waist with a narrow cotton waistband of grey, orange, white and black stripes that has a tie at each end. The hem is finished with a light purple and pink cotton hem facing, stitched in white. A band of green wool runs horizontally around the skirt midway between the waist and hem and is embroidered with a curvilinear, floral design stitched in orange, blue, and white. Waistband cotton, grey, orange, white and black stripe.
Skirt made of black gathered wool with horizontal bands of red, blue, white, yellow, blue-green, light green, dark green and light red embroidery of butterflies, diamonds, flowers, zigzags, separated by horizontal pleats. The waistband is of red, white, and green plaid fabric with ties at the ends and two side plackets outlined in light red. There is an orange embroidered ribbon at the bottom with birds and flowers in purple, yellow, grey, and green. A narrow green band at the hem is embroidered with repeated circles in white. The hem is finished with off-white wool facing on the reverse.
Light brown leather moccasin with three pieces hand sewn with cotton thread; insole, cuff; three laces; black cotton rounded triangle sewn on tongue; decorated with thirteen blue bead triangles around edge; fourteen green beads at base of triangle.
Cured, natural-coloured, slipper-type hide moccasin with shallow boot legging. Remnants of floral design glass-bead embroidery; orange flower, green leaves, blue and brown bud, black stems. Zig-zag cut hide trim at cuff attachment; three holes on each front edge of cuff. Double sole attached with running stitch.
Plain weave, warp faced striped fabric. Pattern of stripes repeats; fine dull green, broad dark brown, light brown, white, and white and brown mixed. Yarn count; 36 warps per inch and 20 wefts per inch. Single ply s twist yarn. Rectangular shape, there are indications of four selvages.
Cotton textile with a plain weave, warp-faced striped fabric fragment; repeating stripe pattern: fine dull green stripe intermixed with broad dark brown, light brown and brown stripes. Yarn count; 36 warps per inch, 20 wefts per inch. Single ply s twist yarn. Torn in large l-shape. Indication of 4 selvages. Piece of cream twisted twine attached. Two large black stains.
Ragged golden-brown band fragment in plain weave with warp face. Warp ends appear to be looped over weft cord. Folded and sewn to band of dark brown cloth with gold/brown geometric pattern. Plain weave with weft floats. Feathers(?) have been caught around weft floats at even intervals. Gold-brown yarn is two-ply, dark brown yarn is single, both are S twist.
The textile is the lower border and fringe of one half of a poncho shirt. The wide tapestry band has an interlocking bird pattern arranged in diagonal rows with double outlining. The tapestry colours, two shades of yellow, two reds, purple, orange, and blue, repeat regularly even in the outlining. A band of three stripes, one embroidered and two of thinner yellow and red stripes, is sewn above and below the tapestry band. Beneath the lower striped band is a long red string fringe. Z-spun, two ply s, all threads.
A narrow four selvedge tapestry with one oblique end. Against a light red background, a feline-like creature with a split eye is repeated in profile seven times. The creature has bared teeth and one extended hand with three fingers. The hind quarters are abbreviated into a spiral. The body is edged with ray elements. Several shades of yellow and red combine variously with accents of white, blue, brown and brown-black outlining each figure. Nested triangles fill the space bordered by the oblique end. One weft selvedge has a self-made fringe, the other has remnants of sewing thread. One warp selvedge has an applied fringe and other oblique end is tightly overcast. Z-spun, two ply s cotton warps and camelid (alpaca ?) wefts.
A large shirt or poncho fragment with tab fringe. Plain weave cotton combined with patterned tapestry areas of yellow, red, blue, purple, green and black camelid (alpaca ?) yarns. The tapestry pattern of small interlocking bird designs in alternating colours with red outlining is repeated against a yellow background. The tapestry areas are arranged in horizontal bands and rows of step-blocks. Two loom widths are sewn together along a weft selvedge. The tab fringe is tapestry woven and continues the bird designs. Z-spun, 2 ply s.