Vest

ClassificationsClothing and Adornments-principal attire (upper body)

Culture Lakota

Datec. 1910

Made AtUnited States, North America

MediumGlass bead, tanned deer leather and cotton cloth

Dimensions20 5/8 × 18 × 3/4 in. (52.4 × 45.7 × 1.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. Lawrence Gale

Object number33118

DescriptionEthnic Arts: Native North American Indian - Beadwork.
Indian beaded vest - white beaded background, red cloth lining. Pattern is various Indian symbols in colors of green, red, and dark blue. Leather ties are used to close the front.

remarks: used by a local Indian in the metropolitan area for Indian fiesta here in recent decades. Left at a friends home one night when the Indian left drunk.

Exhibited:
"Native North American Indian Beadwork", Irvine Gall.,BOWERS MUSEUM, Santa Ana CA, 11/24/82-8/6/84.
"Red Cloud Agency Benefit", Irvine Hilton, Irvine,CA 6/19-6/21-87 (co-sponsored by Ultrasystems & Bowers Museum)
Label copy, "Beaded vests are of modern manufacture and are an obvious embellishment of European clothing. The vest is fully beaded and of great weight. A cloth vest would be bought and enhanced with traditional designs such as this. Circa 1910." (P.Apodaca, 6/87)

Sioux style after 1982.

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