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Skirt of the Hopi bride dress

(white–homespun embr[oidery] in red, black + orange) with sash of similar (like any Hopi sash) at side also red women’s sash about waist + knotted at side black skirt, many bracelets, + necklaces coming high about necks. legs bare down to knee, brownish red buckskins about lower leg, tied below knee with red home spun girdle also bells. red moccasins with various arrangements of silver buttons at ankle.

Hair long + flowing bead dress of rosettes very gay + colorful of artificial flowers and Christmas tree trinkets arranged in very Chinese looking way with long streamers of ribbon at sides over ears.

"Zuni" Dance at San Felipe with Caroline Pickard. Feb. 1925

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