A Native American wedding dress made of cream-color buckskin; sewn with deer sinew; beaded with red/blue/green/yellow seed beads sewn with waxed thread; embellished with seed beads, French beads, bells, fringe; red felted-wool binding at neck edge and down sleeve seam. Fringe at hem and underside of sleeve has been cut into buckskin. The leggings are cream-color buckskin; sewn with deer sinew; fringe cut into garment; seed bead embellishment .5" wide down length of legging is sewn with waxed thread. Long ties ending with bells and brass tubes hang down outside. Sub-numbered A-C.
Use
by Cynthia Ann Mitchell, on her Sept. 14, 1995 wedding in Friendship, IN.
