Pair; blanket; bands of geometric beading in blue on white ground; fringed with ermine.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada and Piegan
Collector:
J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Leggings
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1903 and August 1901
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 38 centimeters
Comment:
Cat. states that -5541-43 are a set, but leggings definitely match -5646, which was catalogued as Piegan. (K. Crabtree, 1978)." References: "Duplicate card in Piegan file." "Duplicate card in Blackfoot file.