Pair of maniples made for export to the European market. The linen ground sewn with very small glass beads in interlocking branches design with flowers and leaves in a typical American Indian palette.
Narrow borders of diamond shapes and bottom fringe of metallic lace.
American-Indian,
18th c.,
glass beads on backed linen,
ground loss, beads missing, need mounting,poor condition,
10" x 43"
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