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The author discusses the clothing worn in portraits of the Sauk chief Black Hawk. She mentions the suit as a symbol of the social relationship between the Sauk and the Americans, as a marker of ethnic identity, and as a representation of Black Hawk's personal identity.

This piece examines a collection of archaeological fabrics never before published, from fifteen historic-period Seneca sites, held by the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC). The collection includes one of the largest assemblages of early modern archaeological fabrics in the world and the single largest collection of such fabrics from Native North American sites. The documentary sources for this period mainly cover the frontiers of Iroquois-European interaction, but the RMSC collection represents a unique window on cultural entanglement and incorporation of new material culture in Native American homelands. Together with the textual record, the RMSC collection shows the ways in which Seneca cultural entanglement with European settlements on the fringes of Iroquoia allowed women to elaborate on existing decorative traditions with new raw materials and to craft a rising standard of living. A careful reading of the choices apparent in the selection of fabrics at Seneca sites shows that the symbolic meanings of Iroquois material culture shifted between home and the diplomatic frontier while Seneca paradigms structured the integration of imported goods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the origins of hypertext and multimedia through tracing how the American Indian communities have made used of wampum belts as hypertextual technologies. It notes wampum belts as something which have extended human memories of inherited knowledges by way of nonlinear designs, interconnected and associative storage and retrieval methods before the discovery of Western hypertext.

The article provides a physical description of the physique of American Indians and their clothing. Some of the tribes discussed include the Iroquois, the Cherokees, the Creeks, the Chickasaws, the Choctaws, and Crows. The author describes trade among the Indian tribes, their grooming habits, and their diets. A description of the tanning and dying of hides and skins is presented. The author considers seasonal variations in Indian dress, the use of more decorative clothes for weddings and other celebrations compared to more everyday apparel, and the different clothing worn by men and women.