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Dressing the Part [Stereotypic Native Clothing] (12 pages)
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60 JOURNAL OF CALIFORNIA AND GREAT BASIN ANTHROPOLOGY
Fig. 5. Chris Brown, ‘‘Chief Lemee,” July 16, 1934.
Note Sioux vest, pseudo-Plains leggings, and
Californian beaded band around throat. Negative number 2037, courtesy National Park
Service, Yosemite Collections,
fringes and rows of abalone pendants and
beads (Fig. 11). More recently, the late Salina
LaMarr made and used a similar dress, less the
abalone and beads, while she demonstrated
basketry at Lassen National Park (Fig, 12).
Similar dresses, designed and made by
Benjiman Hathaway, were used by many
central Californian women, The late Marie
Potts, a Maidu leader, wore Hathaway’s dresses, and then later developed dresses, possibly
based on this style for use by her family and
Fig. 6. Chris Brown, “Chief Lemee,” July 1950. Note
Sioux vest and moccasins mixed with items of
traditional Miwok dress. The use of the flicker
quill band (this one of Maidu or Patwin
origin) as a chest ornament was apparently
Chris Brown’s own idea. Courtesy, National
Park Service, Yosemite Collections.
others in presenting dances for the public.
Today her granddaughter-in-law, along with
other relatives and acquaintances use dresses
made in this same style (Figs. 13-14).
It seems apparent that these dresses and
similar clothes, while based superficially on
Plains-style garments, were created primarily
to “look Indian.” Today, some of these
items—such as hide dresses—have been accepted into the traditional clothing repertoire of
certain native groups, while other native
people call these items those of the “Hollywood Indians.” Gatherings held in California
today for political awareness seldom need the
participants to wear war bonnets in order to
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