Collection record · Objects & craft
Placket and Cuffs
The collection record classifies this work as garment. It is dated late 1800s. Recorded culture or place: Northeast Woodlands, Great Lakes Region, Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) or Nehiyawak (Cree) People?.
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- Museum title
- Placket and Cuffs
- Date
- late 1800s
- Culture / origin
- Northeast Woodlands, Great Lakes Region, Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) or Nehiyawak (Cree) People?
- Materials and technique
- Velvet, cotton
- Dimensions
- Overall: 19.2 cm (7 9/16 in.); Average: 12.5 x 30 cm (4 15/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1956.788
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
In the 1800s, native peoples began to use European fabrics to fashion fine formal garments; they favored sturdy cloth, such as velvet and wool broadcloth, which provided support for heavy decorative beadwork that was added by hand. Often the fabric was a dark color, providing dramatic contrast for the multicolored beads. Rather than encrusting the entire garment, beadwork was confined to cuffs, “epaulettes,” bib-like plackets and yokes, rectangular panels sewn to leggings, shirts, and dresses, and the like.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Anonymous gift in memory of Sarah Ann Morrison · CC0
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