Beadwork. (a,b) Side panels and (c) yoke for dress or shirt; multi-colored glass seed beads in overall stylized leaf design on white ground; beadwork divides into narrow, separate bands at ends, some beads missing. Cotton thread, square weave.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Frances C. Hutchins
References: "Beads: Their Use by Upper Great Lakes Indians", Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, 1977, p. 45, #29. "The Art of the Great Lakes Indians", exhibition organized by Flint Institute of Art, 1973, p. 29, #107.