Historically, Seminole women’s clothing included a very full floor-length skirt with a ruffle at the knee, a long-sleeved shirt, and a short cape also trimmed with a ruffle. As Euro-Americans pushed into Seminole lands in the mid-1800s, they introduced new tools (sewing machines) and materials (ribbon and zigzag rickrack) that Seminole women used to amply decorate clothing. Seminole women of the 1920s and later were also known for wearing many glass-bead necklaces layered and stacked on one another and would conduct their physically taxing daily tasks while wearing around 12 pounds of necklaces.

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From the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery website:

“Women have long been the creative force behind Native American art, yet their individual contributions have been largely unrecognized, instead treated as anonymous representations of entire cultures. ‘Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists’ explores the artistic achievements of Native women and establishes their rightful place in the art world.”

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

Happy to pose, posted earlier: