Walla Walla woman Estelle Speel-ye. - Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Yakama woman named George-Frances Dick, Washington, 1907.
Blackfoot Dress
beadwork, blackfoot, dresses, womens | Heavily beaded yoke both sides with early tribal deer tail design. 48"L x 42"WPERIOD: Last half 19th CenturyORIGIN: Black...
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PLATEAU STYLE ELK TOOTH DRESS
This is a Plateau style elks tooth dress I made as a commission. It is probably the only one like it I will ever make in my lifetime, as ALL the teeth on it are REAL elks teeth. Not carved bone as many of the historic dresses actually are. There are only two teeth per elk that are used like this, so this dress took many years of collecting teeth to make. The dress it's self is made using two brain tanned calf elk hides, which were aged to give a antique appearance. It is tailored in the…
A Yakama two-hide dress, circa 1890.
Dentalium shell & bugle bead cape
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