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leggings
leggings
leggings
A pair of tanned hide leggings. The museum documentation suggests they are from the Northern Plains, possibly Santee Sioux (Eastern Dakota). Collected by G.C. Beltrami in Wisconsin in 1823. Beltrami's collection catalogue states that around 1856, Beltrami's nephew donated several objects to the Civic Library of Bergamo, which were later transferred to the Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali, its current location.
Leonardo Vigorelli suggests that the "Local Group of Origin", as he writes in the Beltrami Collection's Catalogue, is "Santee Sioux".
Museum documentation
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tanned hide; porcupine quills; sinew; dye, red
The leggings are made of tanned hide with a fringe on the outer sides. Porcupine quills are wrapped around the pieces of the fringe, near where they connect to the legging.
Provenance
Collected by G.C. Beltrami from Wisconsin in 1823. Beltrami's collection catalogue states that around 1856, Beltrami's nephew donated several objects to the Civic Library of Bergamo, which were later transferred to the Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali.
The Beltrami Collection was exhibited in Florence in 1929 during the "Prima Esposizione Nazionale di Storia delle Scienze" (First National Exposition of History of Sciences"). In 1973, during a celebration of the Beltrami exhibit, Glauco Luchetti donated three objects from his own collection, which were located in Beltrami's last house in Filottrano, to the "Museo Civico E. Caffi". In 1987 the collection was used in the exhibit entitled "Missisippi 1823. Oggetti indiani raccolti da G. Costantino Beltrami" in the Galleria Lorenzelli in Bergamo.
Beltrami's catalogue. Vigorelli, Gli Oggetti indiani raccolti da G.Costantino Beltrami.
Leonardo Vigorelli, Gli Oggetti indiani raccolti da G.Costantino Beltrami, Civico Museo E. Caffi, Bergamo, 1987.
About This GRASAC Record
This record was created by Emanuela Rossi after a trip funded by GRASAC to the Museo Civico E. Caffi in Bergamo, Italy in October 2008.
Researcher present: Emanuela Rossi.
42.7113, -97.8423
In the Beltrami Collection catalogue, the author, Leonardo Vigorelli, defines "Upper Mississippi" as the Cultural Area of Origin. He defines "Northern Plains" as the Geographic Area.