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Legging

Object Number:45-15-308B
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Arapaho (uncertain)
Southern Cheyenne (uncertain)
Provenience: Southern Plains
Culture Area: Great Plains Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Buckskin
Fiber
Glass
Cowrie Shell
Nut (plant)
Metal
Deer Tail
Cat Fur
Technique:Beaded
Height: 48 cm
Width: 23 cm
Depth: 4.5 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

Description

Boy's legging. Yellow buckskin, beaded band at ankle. Margin of side flap, dark blue and red bars and triangles on white ground. Four beaded stars on flap, fringe with red nuts, cowries, sleigh bell, deer-tail on one legging, wild cat kitten tail on other, beaded cylinder mountings.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) View Objects in Exhibition

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