105mm Bone Hairpipes Oval Ivory 4" 100 pack grommet setter the cloth shirt was worn

the cloth shirt was worn by Indians east of the Mississippi

to identify tribe members

Osborne No

after the French word for “A Long Hooded Cloak or Overcoat”

Oval Shaped

105mm Bone Hairpipes Oval Ivory 4" 100 pack grommet setter the cloth shirt was wornOriginally produced by Native Americans from the columns of marine Conch shells, early forms of elongated beads have long been in use in North America. They were gradually replaced by glass, brass and silver until Eastern wampum manufacturers began producing shell hairpipe from the West Indian conch sometime in the late 1700s. Carried by the Lewis & Clark Expedition, the Northwest Company and Auguste Chouteau as trade goods, both bone and shell