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Traditional Native American clothing is the apparel worn by the indigenous peoples of the region that became the United States before the coming of Europeans. Because the terrain, climate and materials available varied widely across the vast region, there was no one style of clothing throughout, [1] but individual ethnic groups or tribes often had distinctive clothing that can be identified ...
Awaska was made from llama or alpaca wool and had a high thread count (approximately 120 threads per inch). Thick garments made from awaska were worn as standard amongst the lower classes of the Andean highlands, while lighter cotton clothing was produced on the warmer coastal lowlands.
Clothing native to Native Americans in the United States See also the categories Inuit clothing , Latin American clothing , Mesoamerican clothing , and Indigenous textile art of the Americas Subcategories
Non-Native companies and individuals have attempted to use Native American motifs and names in their clothing designs. [87] As early as the 1940s, Anglo designers in the United States had developed a type of one and two-piece dresses called "squaw dresses." [88] These outfits were based on Mexican and Navajo skirts and Western Apache camp ...
The Inuit clothing system bears strong similarities to the skin clothing systems of other circumpolar peoples such as the Indigenous peoples of Alaska, Siberia and the Russian Far East. Archaeological evidence indicates that the history of circumpolar clothing may have begun in Siberia as early as 22,000 BCE, and in northern Canada and ...
Eagle feather war bonnet, Cheyenne, 19th century, trade beads, eagle feathers, red stroud cloth A modern-day Cheyenne dog soldier wearing a feathered headdress during a pow wow at the Indian Summer festival in Henry Maier Festival Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2008
Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing associated with a particular ethnic group, nation or region, and is an expression of cultural, religious or national identity. If the clothing is that of an ethnic group, it may also be called ethnic clothing or ethnic dress.
Historically, most items of clothing were made of shredded and woven cedar bark. [1] The names of the trees which provide the bark material are Thuja plicata, the Western redcedar and Callitropsis nootkatensis, or yellow cypress (often called "yellow cedar"). Bark was peeled in long strips from the trees, the outer layer was split away, and the ...