Mi’kmaq and Maliseets beadworkers also produced items, such as purses and tea cozies, for a non-Native market. Yet among the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy beadwork appears to have been reserved for the decoration of personal regalia. Penobscot men wore distinctive ceremonial regalia consisting of cape collars and cuffs. The oldest extant collars combine beadwork done in
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