Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1895)
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology · Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off. · leaf 252
he arms. A hole was cut and shaped in the middle for the head to pass through. There was no breast cut. The fringes along the sides and under the arm pieces were sometimes very long. Separate pieces of skin, triangular in shape and covered with embroidery in quills or beads, or punctured and… … The one shown in the illustration is a leather shirt seen by me among the Lake tribe. Each sleeve was of two pieces, and the back and front each of two pieces. The shirt was cut low on the breast, and over this opening a separate piece of white unsmoked skin was fastened to the shirt with metal…
Ethnology · Indians
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