Scarves

Scarves

Personal Artifacts

Woven scarf with herringbone pattern. Warp is silk while weft is possibly wool or other fiber. Warp is made of black threads, while weft alters between light and dark tan or possibly faded maroon. Scarf patterned with alternating segments of three rows of lighter weft threads. In most areas, these weft threads are missing, leaving strips of the black weft thread. Scarf is trimmed on each end with 1 cm long fringe.

DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge

ca. 1865

DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, FWS

Material:
Silk

DESO 3144_1-3

Excavated from the Steamboat Bertrand cargo