Legging

NA1622.1

From: United States of America | North Dakota | Fort Berthold | Montana

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA1622.1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Hidatsa | Arikara | Crow (Culture)
Provenience United States of America | North Dakota | Fort Berthold | Montana
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buckskin | Bead | Porcupine Quill | Hair | Pigment
Description

Buckskin leggings with the lower halves featuring horizontal black lines. Beaded band towards the outside with green, white and red lozenges between blue bars with red triangles at the sides on yellow ground. Hair ornaments attached at the outer edge with red or yellow quill wrapping at their bases. Short fringe cut at the bottom and along the outer edge.

Length 118 cm
Width 32 cm
Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1907

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