Description
Strips of beadwork - yellow, blue, green, and orange geometric designs on a rich red background - line the shoulders and chest of the shirt. Two strips over the shoulders and two along the top of the sleeves.
Red trade cloth shirt bibs are placed in center of the front chest and back of the shirt. The edges are finished with threaded stitches. Each bib is decorated with rows of yellow beadwork with an orange and blue detail, an abalone shell disc with a dangle of white horse hair and tin cone, and leather dangles. The neck is also edged with red trade cloth and finished with glass beads.
On the front of the shirt, lengths of horse hair are suspended below the beaded arm strips and to either side of the neck tab with tin cones and abalone shell discs. The back of the shirt features dangles of horse hair only on each side of the chest strip.
The bottom edge of the sleeves, shirt, and neck tab are finished with leather fringe.
The shirt is made of commercially tanned leather. Beadwork is done using Venetian glass beads in the lane/lazy stitch technique. The sides of the shirt and bottom of the sleeves are open.