legging
- Museum number
- Am1949,06.2.a-b
- Description
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Pair of hide leggings with fringes but no beadwork.
- Production date
- 1896 (before)
- Dimensions
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Length: 108 centimetres (a)
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Length: 106 centimetres (b)
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Width: 25 centimetres (a)
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Width: 26 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 1 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 1 centimetres (b)
- Curator's comments
- Register 1949:
Plains Indian, probably Cree, 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 Siuox 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
- Am1949,06.2.a-b
