Material culture of the Menomini / by Alanson Skinner.

  • Alanson Skinner
Date:
1921
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Credit: Material culture of the Menomini / by Alanson Skinner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    those exhibited in pi. xxi, a, b. These are made of broadcloth worked with flower designs in beads. They resemble the skin leggings, but have no fringe. The most recent form of cloth leggings lacks the beadwork, but possesses a border of colored silk ribbons, sewed on without much care. These leggings all differ from the trousers of Caucasians in that they are two separate garments, intended to incase the legs and thighs, a breech-clout sufficing in lieu of a seat. The thighs are thus left partially bare, even in the coldest weather. Breech-cloths The breech-clouts observed and collected by the writer have usually been plain strips of dark blue or black broadcloth, about two feet broad by four feet long, with vari¬ colored silk ribbons sewed along the sides and the ends. Some, however, have had floral designs in colored beads similar to those shown on the leggings figured in pi. xxi. The garment was made to pass between the legs and over the belt, thus leaving a flapping apron before and behind,
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