Slow Fashion Vintage

2004 Smithsonian Festival Tee

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Original t-shirt from the First Americans Festival, held September 21-26, 2004 on the National Mall to celebrate the grand opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the first national museum in the United States dedicated entirely to Native American culture. The opening day drew 25,000 Native people from across the Western Hemisphere in a procession along the Mall, making it one of the largest gatherings of Indigenous communities in American history.

The print reproduces a piece of contemporary Native American art centered on a stylized turtle motif, framed by the festival’s title and the museum’s name beneath a Gildan Ultra Cotton body.

How it's made / curated

Every piece has to be that one item that just clicks: a story behind the print, a graphic you won’t find again, a fade that only real wear creates.

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Details

100% cotton (Gildan Ultra Cotton)

Size

Size on label: XL
Pit to pit: 59 cm
Length: 68 cm
Fits as a regular XL / oversized L
Boxy, classic cut

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