Clothing used in living history events.
This is a very small sample. See Event
Photos pages for additional images.
A: Blue checked trade shirt, horn buttons
B: Leather belt, brass buckle
C: White cloth trade shirt. Stained from ochre and use.
D: Navy wool breechcloth, no edging or border, 13" wide
x58" long.
E: Brass and copper wire bracelets
F: Deer hide side seam leggings. Laced up with self-leather
thong in running stitch. Two "forked" straps per side to hold them
up. Dyed in Pecan hulls and local red ochre -- attempt at "red
leathern leggings" as cited in Adair and others.
G: Smoked deer hide center seam pucker toe moccasins--my
latest version. Stitched with waxed four-ply linen thread, greased
slightly with mix of bear oil, sweet (olive) oil and beeswax, along with
whatever else was in that can of greasy stuff at the time.
H: Red wool breechcloth, edged in blue ribbon tape.
Tapered ends per Bartram. Most suitable for late 1700's through Creek war.
13" wide x 57" long.
A pair of puckertoe, center seam moccasins made for my
youngest son from deer hide Thin hide is much easier to pucker
correctly--see my heavy, back/neck leather moccasins above.
Leg ties made by Nathan Kobuck.
References:
O’Neil, James, Their Bearing is Noble and Proud (Vols 1 and 2)
Fundaburk, Emma Lila. Southeastern Indians : Life
Portraits : A Catalogue of Pictures 1564-1860.
Hudson, Charles. The
Southeastern Indians. Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1976.
Cashin, Edward J., ed. A wilderness still the cradle of
nature: frontier Georgia : a documentary history. Savannah : Library of
Georgia/Beehive Press, 1994 The history section and compilation of letters
from/about the Creek from 1780-1796 are good sources of information.
Trade lists from the University of Georgia
Southeastern Native American Database: http://www.galileo.peachnet.edu/
Bartram, William. Travels
through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida
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