Shirt for formal occasionsThis shirt does not have hairlocks, so it is not a sacred object for Blackfoot people. Its beautiful fringes and quillwork mark it as a shirt worn for formal occasions. Blackfoot advisors tell us that the use of somuch hide just for fringes suggests that the shirt's owner was from a family who had good hunters to provide somany hides, and many women to tan the hides.
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