Woman's red wool skirt with red, gold, navy, and green satin ribbon and embroidered flowers
Woman's green cotton skirt with elastic waistband
Multicolor cotton patchwork skirt with rickrack / Tahoma Osceola
Essay/Description
Long patchwork skirt of red cotton ground with four panels of patchwork in variations of diamond pattern with rickrack borders at top and bottom.
Curatorial Remarks
Seminole patchwork dresses and skirts are unique, and they likely have African influence. The Gullah people would flee from South Carolina into Florida as a journey to freedom, and some Gullah people adopted Seminole as their language and culture.
Tags: skirt, patchwork, Seminole, West African influence, Gullah
People: Seminole
Places: Southeast, Eastern Oklahoma
Purpose: domestic use
From interviews with Dr. Garrick Bailey, 2018-2020 University of Tulsa, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Tags: skirt, patchwork, Seminole, West African influence, Gullah
People: Seminole
Places: Southeast, Eastern Oklahoma
Purpose: domestic use
From interviews with Dr. Garrick Bailey, 2018-2020 University of Tulsa, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology