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Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

dressed to the nines

anyone else know what a ribbon shirt it ? because i kept reading about it and i didnt understand the attire. like when thomas wore a ribbon shirt to court... anyway here's a good link with different ribbon shirt designs http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.littlecrowtradingpost.com/Shirt1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.littlecrowtradingpost.com/pageshirt.htm&h=446&w=300&sz=27&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=Ls1kDxm40vOAiM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=85&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dribbon%2Bshirts%2B%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN


also here are some intresting picture of elaborately beaded dresses

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.voanews.com/english/images/NMAI_ContempDress.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-04/2007-04-02-voa21.cfm&h=195&w=210&sz=14&hl=en&start=13&um=1&tbnid=z8EE1VW_lU4K5M:&tbnh=98&tbnw=106&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbeaded%2Bindian%2Bdresses%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

2 comments:

Jessica Deckard said...

http://www.kumeyaay.info/smithsonian.html?http%3A//www.kumeyaay.info/museums/smithsonian/kumeyaay_exhibition.html

A Traditional Ribbon Shirt at the Smithsonian

Kevin Quizzle said...

what does all this ribbon stuff mean cause tha denn miester is right they reference it alot