“Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses” will be featured at the Museum of the American Indian in NYC from Sept. 26, 2008 to Sept. 2009
The designs include full skirts, good for horse back riding, dresses used for ceremonial coming of age dances, and bead decorated garments detailing tribal/group membership.
“Bringing together a vast array of dresses and accessories from the Plains, Plateau, and Great Basin regions of the United States and Canada, Identity by Design highlights Native women’s identity through traditional dress and its contemporary evolution.”
“Identity by Design” 9/16/08 – 9/29/09
Museum of the American Indian – (212) 514-3700
George Gustav Heye Center, 1 Bowling Green, NYC
(Crow elk tooth cloth dress, ca. 1890. Montana. Red and green wool, imitation elk teeth (bone), seed beads, muslin, thread.)