Lesson 3B Woodland Indian Clothing
This is a way for educators to get a glimpse of what researchers use for documentation and see what the Native Woodland People really looked like. There is a timeline from people who lived around 1500 years ago and then to Mississippian where we have lots of evidence for twined fabrics which have been found on pottery sherds, figurines, and actual samples recovered from sites in the south.
Gradually, the replacement of natural techniques for making clothing came in the form of ready made shirts, but in the beginning it was trade cloth -- wool, linen, cotton, twill tapes, gartering, and silk ribbons.
Eventually, ready made shirts, stockings, garters, numerous kettles, silver brooches, pipe tomahawks, ostrich feathers, brass and copper ornaments all were made available to the Woodland Indians from the Atlantic to the Mississippi to the Ohio and beyond into the Southeast as well.
Woodland Indian Clothing Timeline Hopewell 500AD to 1840 AD