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Heritage Days white cotton t-shirt / Unknown

Essay/Description

An extra-large white poly-cotton t-shirt by the "Fruit of the Loom" company screened in red and black in with a logo symbolic to the Euchee people and text reading "Yuchi Heritage Days" above the logo and "1997" beneath it. The logo itself features a geometric sun design, a ceremonial fireplace, and the word TZO YA HA.

Curatorial Remarks

This is a commercially produced t shirt.

Tags: t shirt, Euchee Heritage Days, 1997, Tzo Ya Ha
People: Euchee
Places: Southeast, Eastern Oklahoma
Purpose: domestic use, commercial sale

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

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Title(s): 
Heritage Days white cotton t-shirt
Creator(s): 
Unknown
Culture: 
Native American; Euchee
Date: 
1997
Materials/Techniques: 
cotton, ink
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
Purchased with funds provided by the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Community Folklife Program Grant
Accession No: 
95.11
Previous Number(s): 
TL1998.6.1
Department: 
Not On View

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