legging
- Museum number
- Am1949,06.16
- Description
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Beadwork band, strip legging; made of glass; beads mounted on cotton cloth in white and blue triangular pattern, possibly in imitation of Wampum.
- Production date
- 1880s (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.20 centimetres
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Width: 56.20 centimetres
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1949:
Plains Indian, Canada.
Collected from Indians of Canada, mostly from Saskatchewan and Manitoba by the late James A. Head (donor's uncle) between 1881 and 1896.
Part at the time of Reid's Rebellion, 1884.
Mr Head lived near an old Sioux trail at "Rapid City" Manitoba.
See letter from H.T. Mann, 21/7/49.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1949,06.16
