Feathered headdress worn by men as a sunshade. Condition: good

Pair of long boots made of caribou skin; with long, brown fur strips and edged with white fur.

Brooklyn Museum Collection

After review by several different consultants these mocassins are probably Commanche, although there is a possibility they are Kiowa. Yellow painted mocassins with a beaded arrow design in white, red ,and green on the vamp.

Plain deerskin, double thickness woman’s belt with blue pony beads wrapped around both edges. Small black seed beads are used near the fringes. At one time the end fringes were wrapped with orange quills, now mostly dissappeared.

The mocassins are constructed with smoked buckskin that is gathered into a series of small folds or "puckers" by seams running from the area above the toes to the area below the ankle. The seams are decorated by quillwork made up of orange lines and centered white and dark purple triangles crossed by a series of four additional linear designs. The seams of the heel are decorated in simple configured quillwork bands of white, light blue, and dark purple crosses. Cuffs are added onto the mocassins as separate semi-circular pieces of deerskin with quilled borders containing an undulating dark purple band and several straight lines. Metal cones, stuffed with dyed red deer hair are suspended from the edges of the cuffs.

Beaded hide apron with straight top and five scalloped panels hanging along the bottom. A blackened flap of skin at the waist is folded over a stiffer tie (skin or fibre?), stitched and coiled with multicoloured beads, and edged with a row of brass rings above which is stitched a band of white beadwork. A blue bead trim runs around the edge of the thick horizontal and vertical bands of beads that form a white ground with a green, pink, blue. black, orange, purple and yellow house design in the centre and coloured motifs in each of the panels.

Oval shaped seal skin with image sewn into the main skin using a patchwork technique. The main skin is lighter at the sides and dark down the centre. Light and dark pieces of seal skin are used to create the image of two Inuit people facing forward. The edge of the skin has holes cut into it for stretching or hanging on a frame, with a strip of leather strung through several holes at the top. The back shows the seams where all the pieces of skin have been sewn together. There are green Holman Island stamps on the back of the skin.

Rectangular seal skin with image sewn into the main skin using a patchwork technique. Lighter pieces of seal skin are used to create the images of an Inuit hunter with a spear pointed toward a seal under a curve of ice(?), with border designs at each end. The back shows the seams where all the pieces of skin have been sewn together. There are green Holman Island stamps on the back of the skin.

Square beaded hide apron with brass metal rings along edge of flap at waist and two long ties. Beadwork designs in white, red, blue, green and black include patterns in the shape of a capital "I "and "H", a tall cross, and a long, low house. A central bottom fringe, made of twisted bundles of four skin strips encased together at the ends in beadwork tubes, hangs between two panels.