Bride's Wedding Robe Weddings
Bride's Wedding Robe



Bride's Wedding Robe
Hopi, ca. 1904

A bride receives two white cotton wedding robes--one of which will someday be her burial shroud and a second that she can use communally or trade. Border stitches and tassels dangling from the robe's corners signify the bride's fertility and the future hope for children.



Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), kaolin, wool (Ovis aries), vegetable dye; L 120.0 x W 157.0 cm; 3165-28