Leggings

Museum number:
2-5212a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
20 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.131 and Acc.52
Description:
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.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Dakota
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Leggings
Accession date:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Context of use:
Worn by man on "state occasions"; also worn by other Siouan tribes.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 93 centimeters
Comment:
Worn by man on "state occasions"; also worn by other Siouan tribes.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 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 2 of 2 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.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.

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