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Power Shirts – For Students

Shirt (back), Numakiki (Mandan), about 1820


Shirt (back), Numakiki (Mandan), about 1820
Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American Indian

Shirt (front), Upper Missouri Region, about 1840


Shirt (front), Upper Missouri Region, about 1840
Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American Indian

Shirt (front), Upper Missouri Region, about 1858


Shirt (front), Upper Missouri Region, about 1858
Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American Indian

Additional Information

More information and examples of Native American power shirts, can be found at Smithsonian Magazine in the Old Ways Gallery.


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