Ceremonial cloak with silver iconography

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A ceremonial cloak with silver iconography. There body of the cloak is made from four panels of black synthetic plain weave fabric. A an allover pattern of wheat grass and a cross pattée is woven into the fabric. At the neck is a 3” wide collar made from one panel of fabric. The cloak fastens at the collar with a 1” wide metal closure and a 3” broken metal chain link, which doesn’t connect to the other side. The cloak opens completely at the front and there are two panels of black 3” wide velvet – one on each opening panel of the center front opening. Embroidered 27” long metallic wheat strands are machine embroidered onto the velvet panels. Each front side is made from two panels of fabric with a bias-cut triangular panel the bottom.

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