Leggings
- Museum number:
- 7-5135a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21075135a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 26 (previous number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.1988
- Description:
- Woman's leggings (tozluci); purple wool with multicolored embroidery and commercial cloth overlay; each is 31 cm long.
- Donor:
- Velimir Nikolov
- Collection place:
- Mitroj Krsti, Polog Region, Republic of Macedonia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Purchased in Gostivar
- Production place:
- Mitroj Krsti, Polog Region, Republic of Macedonia
- Culture or time period:
- Macedonian (modern culture)
- Collector:
- Velimir Nikolov
- Collection date:
- August 28, 1964
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Leggings
- Function:
- 2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
- Accession date:
- 1965
- Context of use:
- Part of traditional costume. Worn in winter or when cold around calf of leg over stocking of women. (Younger women wear this brighter, more decorated type.) Basic material is Klasnja, felted woven wool cloth. Made by Terzija, professional tailors of folk costume. Similar costume piece by same name is worn by males. Still in use by some of population at time of collection (1964).
- Department:
- Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
- Loans:
- S1965-1966 #41: Department of Home Economics (UC Davis) (January 18, 1966–February 28, 1966)
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