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Dressing the Part [Stereotypic Native Clothing] (12 pages)
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STEREOTYPICAL INDIAN CLOTHING 59
Group of Native Californians at a mecting, possible one of those of the F
ederated Indians of California
(ca, late 1940s). Left, Chief William Fuller; right, Marie Potts, others unidentified, The dresses worn by
the women were made by B. W. Hathaway. Note the wide range of material cultures represented in
moccasins, vests, and cradle—none of which is Californian, Courtesy of Dorothy Stanley.
wore Sioux war bonnets and beaded vests
(Lord 1930). Lemee was descended from a
family of hereditary leaders and was well
acquainted with Miwok ritual and religion.
Born around 1900, by the late 1920s he was
employed by the National Park Service to
demonstrate dances and traditional Miwok
skills to the public. He often wore his favorite
Sioux war bonnet and fully beaded vest,
sometimes mixing Plains and California regalia
to create a suitable image (Fig. 6).
Likewise, Maggie “Tabuce” Howard, a
Mono Lake Paiute woman, was only one of
many women in the Yosemite region that
made Indian-style dresses of their own design
for use on festive occasions (Fig. 7). She, like
Chris Brown, was employed to demonstrate
native skills to park visitors during the
1920-1940 era. Photographs taken during that
time show her wearing a variety of dresses.
Other women, such as the sisters Alice James
Willson and Lucy Parker Telles created similar
outfits, destined to become treasured heirlooms in their families (Figs. 8-10).
To the north in California, the Atsugewi
developed Indian-type clothing seemingly not
based on their earlier styles. One dress, made
by an Atsugewi woman in Goose Valley,
California, was fashioned with sleeves, oblique
rows of thick fringes sewn on, and a row of
large beads strung on fringes at the collar
(Garth 1953: Plate 12). Likewise, in the
1930s Louise Bone, an Atsugewi woman,
wore a similar dress ornamented with wide