The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Veil, or shawl, worn with wedding ensemble (3132/2 a-b). Fabric is wild tussar silk in a light orange-brown colour. It is hand embroidered with small images of standing birds, elephants with tusks and long tails, and human figures with arms spread, in gold metallic thread, round wooden beads, and tubular glass and metal beads. The back of the veil shows the yellow and white thread used to attach the beads.

Baggy shalvaar style pants, worn with a long tunic (part a), and veil or shawl (part c), as part of a wedding ensemble. Pants are made of wild tussar silk in a light orange-brown colour and have a wide waist band, with pull-string that ties at the front. Legs are pleated at top front, loose through the thigh and tapering toward the ankle, where hem is stitched five times. The garment is otherwise undecorated. Interior is lined with silk fabric in a course weave.

Silk embroidered jacket. Jacket is short-sleeved with a collarless 'v' neck, open at the front and fastened with two cotton ties. Garment is made of tan coloured cotton in a course weave, covered on the exterior by dark purple silk. The front is embroidered in shades of gold with images of standing birds, butterflies, and flower motifs. The back shows two serpentine dragons, bodies extending upward, clawed feet protruding, heads toward top, scales densely embroidered. The dragons are surrounded by flower motifs as well and rounded linear decorations. Arm cuffs are decorated with a single line of circular motifs, while the bottom of the jacket body has several lines of small triangles in black, purple and dark blue. The interior is covered on one side only with a tan fabric in a finer weave than that underlying the rest of the garment.