woman's leggings
woman's leggings
woman's leggings
Single woman's legging. Hodenosaunee, Mohawk. From the Awkwasase Reservation, St. Regis. Collected by Mark Raymond Harrington from Mrs. Peter La France and acquired by the National Museum of the American Indian in 1907.
Information from catalogue card.
Information from the catalogue card.
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black woolen cloth, dark blue, dark green, red, salmon, yellow, and light blue silken ribbon, opaque white beads size 12 or 14, beige thread.
Ribbonwork and beadwork.
Bottom: ribbonwork, zig zags
Side: three rows of single-beads separated by thin lines of ribbon/ wide inward facing double curves.
There is a similar pair of leggings at the CMC, also from the Grand River Reservation (III-I-98).
Provenance
Mark Raymond Harrington
About This GRASAC Record
This record was created by Stacey Loyer while at the NMAI on a Visiting Student fellowship, under the supervision of Prof. Ann McMullen, from November 3-December 15 2009.