Native American Kilt.

[Bugbear]

* I took that out because it had too much off topic babbeling and personal infromation. *

[wsk]

Yeah, I know, old thread, but the topic of Puebloan kilts came up in another on-line world I lurk. So that what I wrote in that other world would have some grounding in reality, I came looking for pictures because I remember having seen them on XMTS.

They're gone! Riverkilt, where did all of your Hopi dance pictures go? Looking at the source data of your posts I can find the URLs of the pictures but all I get when I use image address is a 403 forbidden error.

I have always been facinated by the art of western Native Americans - not a slight to eastern Native Americans but I live in the west so have been exposed to the art of the western peoples. So over the years when I've had the money to do it; I've collected rugs and sculpture from the Diné; and pottery, fetishes, Katchinas, and the like from the Puebloans.

I don't think that traditional weaving technique lends itself to kilts as we generally think of them, but I think that the colors and certainly some of the designs would lend themselves well to non-traditional - non-tartan - kilts. Perhaps when I get my loom restored that will be something worth looking into. I'm thinking that a Chiefs Blanket pattern would make a stunning kilt.

[Bigkahuna]

The Native Americans of the Eastern woodlands wore an item very much like an unpleated kilt. The Iroquois in particular were noted for this item of dress and it is perhaps because of this that the Eastern tribes looked at the Scots from the Highland regiments as long-lost brothers. Many similarities in culture there.