woman's leggings

woman's leggings

woman's leggings

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Introduction

Woman's leggings. Hodenosaunee, from the Grand River Reservation, Ontario. Collected by Joseph W. Keppler, around 1906. Acquired by the National Museum of the American Indian through an exchange with the U.S. National Museum, Washington D.C.

Nation of Maker: Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular nation(s)

Information from catalogue card.

Place of Origin: Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Information from catalogue card.

Materials

navy woolen cloth, medium blue silken ribbon or tape, opaque white beads sizes 16 and 12, beige and black thread.

Techniques or Format

Each legging is made from a single piece of cloth. The leggings have been cut roughly, and in a way that makes them flare out slightly at the bottom. The beadwork and silken tap start where the flare begins. They have been sewn by hand up the centre, with a 4cm long opening at the bottom.

The blue silken tape is textured, with two small ripples running horizontally.
The smaller beads, used in the decorative pattern on the leggings, are rounder than the slightly larger beads used to edge eacg legging.

Motifs and Patterns

Bottom and side: single line of 3 bead zig zags.
The edging is a single bead picot stitch, with 2 beads between each single vertical bead.

Dimensions: 32 × 21 × 0 cm
Current Location: National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 008377
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1906
GKS Reference Number: 26917
Record Creation Context

This record was created by Stacey Loyer while at the NMAI on a Visiting Student fellowship, November 3-December 15 2009.

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