Object class: Main garments / Donor: G. B. Gordon / Culture or time period: Sioux - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Leggings, accession number 2-5221a,b, described as Buckskin leggings, stained yellow; geometric beading.

Hearst Museum object titled Leggings, accession number 2-5212a,b, described as Made of green-blue stained buckskin; heavy fringe and narrow, beaded (glass trade beads) band (multicolor triangles on white) along outside and base; also fringe with "money" cowries in vertical band.

Hearst Museum object titled Shirt, accession number 2-5209, described as Buckskin, yellow stained; painted symbolic designs; fringed. Meaning of symbolic designs (an individual warrior's dream and prayer): the "Thunder-bird" and heralding swallows fly at the front facing the enemy; lightening darts from the arms; the turtle protects the wearer's back.