Native Clothing

Lesson Goal: To understand that the Natives of Nevada made their clothing from materials found in their natural environment.

Lesson Objective: Students will design clothing using only those materials fround in their given ecosystems.

Materials:

• Native Nevadan Clothing worksheet.
• Student Information workbooks.
• Native Tribes of Nevada Tribal Comparison chart (Blackline Masters)

Introduction:

1. Explain to the students the lesson objective.
2. Divide the students into their same tribal groups.
3. Ask from what materials are the studentsŐ clothes
   made of. Chart their responses.
4. Show examples of Nevada Native clothing (Student Information workbooks). Ask what are the native's clothes made from. Chart responses.
5. Make a comparison of the types of material used to make present and past clothing.
6. Explain that Nevada Native clothing was made from material found in their living environments.
7. Review the types of ecosystems the Natives of Nevada lived in (mountains, foothills, desert flats and wetlands). Use pictures from Shelters - SH-13.
8. Explain that they will pick one ecosystem, draw the ecosystem, design their clothes using only materials found in that ecosystem and draw the clothes on the Nevada Natives on the worksheet.
9. Do the worksheet.
   

Follow-up: Discuss the students' designs.

Evaluation:

• Completion of clothes design.
• Participation in discussion.

Additional Activities:

1. Visit a local museum to see clothes made by Western Shoshone or other local tribes (Churchill Co., Nevada State, Northeastern Nevada Museums).
2. Have a Western Shoshone or other tribal member come in and show their native clothing and other items.
3. Make a life-size model of their clothing design.

Nevada Native Clothing Designs:

Directions: Using one of the ecosystems that the Natives of Nevada lived in more than 200 years ago, draw a Nastive man and woman. Then, design some clothes for them using only materials found in that ecosystem. In the background, draw the ecosystem that they lived in.







ECOSYSTEM__________________________

List the materials used to make the clothing:








Explain why you used these types of materials for their clothing: