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Estate find.
**Item:** Antique Native American Style Beaded Brain-Tanned Hide Pullover Shirt
**Estimated Era:** Early 20th Century (Circa 1900–1930)
**Probable Regional Style:** Cree / Métis / Columbia River Plateau (e.g., Nez Perce, Yakima)
**Construction Details:**
* **Material:** Authentic brain-tanned buckskin/hide, soft texture with natural coloration.
* **Beadwork Style:** Exquisite floral, vining botanical patterns executed in multi-colored glass seed beads.
* **Stitching Technique:** Hand-sewn contour overlay / couching stitch (Spot Stitch) utilizing fine commercial thread (Not lane/lazy stitch, Not sinew stitched).
* **Structural Features:** Features a split V-neck placket, a continuous fully beaded back shoulder yoke panel, and fully beaded appliqué panel cuffs.
* **Hardware:** Retains an original antique late-Victorian molded metal pictorial shank \"picture button\" featuring a perched bird and flower.
Overall very good condition. Leather is in good shape with some stiffining. Some minor surface staining. Beadwork remains tight and in place. Solid structural condition.
Measurements:
35 inch length
22 inch sleeve
20 inches shoulder seam to shoulder seam
21.5 inches armpit to armpit
