James R. Mead wore this fringed buckskin jacket with beaded decoration as a young man in Kansas. The child’s outfit of deerskin jacket and beaded pants was made by Jennie Greiffenstein, Indian wife of William Greiffenstein. Known as “Cheyenne Jennie,” she created the clothing as a gift for Mead’s son James L. “Bunnie” Mead around 1866.
