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Article: American Indian dresses.(Current and coming)(Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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If you have not visited the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Hyde Center, housed in the grand 1906 Beaux-Arts style Alexander Hamilton United States Custom House designed by Cass Gilbert at Bowling Green in lower Manhattan, the new exhibition Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses should provide motivation. The unbelievably intricate dresses and accessories in this exhibition, dating from the early 1800s to the present, are more than simply articles of clothing--they are complex expressions of American Indian culture and identity.
Fully beaded dresses and moccasins, such as the ones seen ...