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Shirt for working

This is a work shirt, an ordinary covering for protecting the body from wind and from branches when walking through the bush. Perhaps used as an outer layer when it was snowing. It shows its hard life: there are many tears at the neck, where it has been pulled on and off.

 

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About the Shirts

Relations between the Blackfoot-speaking peoples and fur trade companies
What are the Blackfoot shirts in the Pitt Rivers Museum made of?
What the shirts tell us
How did the shirts get to the Pitt Rivers Museum?
The Process of restoring and conserving the Blackfoot shirts
Identifying the plant material in the quillwork
Meeting the Ancestors
Shirt for formal occasions
Shirt for working
Shirt that tells its history
Shirt with layers of paint
Shirt with painted war honours
Trade goods at Fort Edmonton - 1841
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