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Clothing

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Pair of women's wool leggings decorated with glass beads and satin ribbon. Created by Alice Poodry (Seneca), Tonawanda reservation, New York. Collected by William A. Ritchie, Curator of Anthropology, Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, for the Indian Arts Project, and received by Peabody in an exchange in 1949.

Name of Maker(s): Alice Poodry
Nation of Maker: Seneca
Nation of Origin

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Place of Origin: Tonawanda Seneca Nation
Date Made or Date Range: before 1949
Materials

Blue wool, grey satin ribbon, beads

Techniques or Format

A pair of leggings, each made with one piece of blue wool with sewn seam that terminates into slit cuff. Beadwork in yellow and orange ornaments the bottom of the leggings. Grey satin ribbon bordered by beads is sewn along the bottom edge and slit.

Motifs and Patterns

Repeated double curves, domes, parallel lines, wavy lines, curvilinear motifs

Dimensions: 35.7 × 20.1 × 0 cm
Condition: excellent
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Current Location: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 49-10-10/29428
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1949
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: purchased from Alice Poodry at Tonawanda
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1949
Previous Collectors: William A. Ritchie
Collection Narratives and Histories

W.A. Ritchie, Curator of Anthropology, Rochester Museum of Arts and Scineces as intermediary - Exchange with the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences in 1949. "We are sending you today by express prepared a collection of Seneca Indian articles made on New York reservations during W.P.A. times under the Indian Arts Project" - Correspondence from W.A. Ritchie to J.O. Brew 6/29/1949.

GKS Reference Number: 45120
Record Creation Context

Visit to Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) of Wahsontiio Cross and Alexandra Nahwegahbow, assisted by Meredith Vasta on 11-12 August 2015.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.0612, -78.4489

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