Ceremonial Shirt (sac̉áasın̉ sám̉x̣)

Nez Perce

Interpretive text from Nimiipuu Tribal Committee:

"Men's ceremonial shirt, constructed out of at least 3 hides for the body of the shirt and more hides for the fringe. The neckflaps retain the original form of the animal's neck, which is decorated with a rosette of single bundle, quill-wrapped horsehair, edged with black and white glass 'pony' beads. Decorated with quilled shoulder and arm strip, with a unique asymetrical design configuration, as well differing quillwork techniques employed in decorating the shoulder strips. This style of shirt antedates the more common two-hide binary shirt, that predominated by the 1860's."