Ojibwe beaded velvet breech cloth
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- Created: 1893
- Description
Pair of heavily beaded breech cloths decorated with Ojibwe floral design. Exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 as part of the Becker County Indian Exhibit and attributed to the "Becker County Indian Industries." The smaller breech cloth is shown hanging in the lower right in a photograph of the "American Indian collection of Mrs. Jessie C. Yeats, Becker County, Minnesota" (#4969) from the Becker County Historical Society. Mrs. Jessie C West (misspelling for photograph) was Becker County's representative at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893.
- Creator
Becker County Indian Industries
West, Mrs. Jessie Campbell
- Partner
- Minnesota Digital Library
- Contributing Institution
- Minnesota Historical Society
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- Collections Online
- Subjects
- Ojibwe Indians
World's Columbian Exposition
Fairs and expositions
Ojibwe Indians--Costume
Indian.Clothing.Outerwear.Breechcloths
Loincloth - Type
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- Artifacts
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- Chicago citation style
- Becker County Indian Industries, West, Mrs. Jessie Campbell. Ojibwe beaded velvet breech cloth. Created: 1893. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10249421. (Accessed March 28, 2023.)
- APA citation style
- Becker County Indian Industries, West, Mrs. Jessie Campbell, (Created: 1893) Ojibwe beaded velvet breech cloth. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10249421
- MLA citation style
- Becker County Indian Industries, West, Mrs. Jessie Campbell. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10249421>.