This trailer is made of a dark navy wool and is decorated with green strips along the edges with a yellow border and three horizontal strips with green, yellow, red, and purple diamond patterns. The trailer was worn with 84.3601a-d, as a dance outfit.

Ribbon work one with silk strips then attached to wool pieces. Silk ribbon work. There are other public events besides dances that Osage wear their Indian clothes. Monty Chesawalla (Modoc name) was the director of the Osage Tribal Museum and she told me that back in the 1930's Osage women would just sit around and create ribbon strips. These strips would then be kept so they could be attached to something later.

Tags: dance trailer, wool, silk
People: Osage
Places: Southern Plains, Oklahoma
Purpose: ceremonial, public events, dances

From interviews with Dr. Garrick Bailey, 2018-2020 University of Tulsa, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology