What the shirts tell us - Looking closely at the Blackfoot shirts with a museum conservator and a curator

In July 2009, Heather, Charlotte, and Laura visited the shirts in the textile storeroom of the Pitt Rivers Museum. Although we have seen the shirts many times, we looked really carefully this time, in order to see what the shirts would tell us about how they were made, how they were used, and what happened to them after Sir George Simpson and Edward Hopkins acquired them in 1841. We looked at just four of the five shirts that day, as one of them was on display in the museum, but we learned a lot.