Sunday, December 18, 2011

The Blackfoot Shirts Project

Great to see some media for the 2011 CMA Ames Prize winners ...

The shirts date back nearly 200 years, made from elk and deer hide and some decorated with porcupine quill embroidery, hide fringe, and strands of horse and human hair. They were once proudly worn by the Blackfoot people of North America. However, few Blackfoot had ever seen the shirts, kept in a museum in England. ...

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