Re: MtMan-List: cutouts on clothing

["Matt Richards" <backcountry@braintan.com>]

>Matt
>  The cutouts, or"pinkings and piercings", was predominately a
>southwestern addition to clothing styles.  Many examples of Mexican and
>Commanche leather goods have patterns cut through an outer cover with
>leather or cloth to back with.
>


You also find the cutouts or 'piercings' as you call them in northern
California Indian brain-tan, well north of Mexican influence  (see old
photos at the 'Trees of Mystery' museum, highway 101 south of Crescent City)
and in some Plains Indian pieces.