Leggings (2), women's

Leggings (2), women's

Leggings (2), women's

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Introduction

Red stroud and wool leggings with silk ribbon, tape, and sead beads. Collected by V.T. Hammer in 1933.

Nation of Origin

Bungi, Plains Ojibwa, Saulteaux

Date Made or Date Range: 1900s to 1933
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

NMAI records and physical examination by Cory Willmott and Ann McMullen, July 2007.

Materials

Red common stroud; brown woollen cloth with stipe or stripes of tan weft (brown is cut off bottom while tan is cut off top, which leaves the actual ground color ambiguous), narrow silk ribbon (green), narrow faded black cotton tape; seed beads (white, clear dark green and greasy teal); cotton thread.

Techniques or Format

Black ribbon sewn over seam of red and brown wool. Linear beadwork sewn directly on stroud, and over green and black ribbon. This suggests that the brown wool is original to the piece.

Motifs and Patterns

Repeating patterns of diamonds, ottertail and wavy lines.

Other Notes

CW

Condition: Moth damage is visible in fabric, some of the ribbon edges have frayed, some bead work is missing.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

NMAI records of in the field collection.

Current Location: National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 184843.000
Collection at Current Location: Hammer Collection
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1/1/1933
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Collection by V.T. Hammer
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: ca. 1933
Collection Narratives and Histories

Hammer, V. T.; Collected.

GKS Reference Number: 25491
Record Creation Notes/Observations

This record was created on site at NMAI by the GRASAC members listed below. Ann McMullen and Pat Nietfeld of NMAI supported the research onsite. Cory Willmott's research was funded by a grant from the American Philosophical Society. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville provided Cory with an RA, Ceara Horsley, in Fall 2008 to work on GRASAC data entry. (CH)

Approximate Place of Origin

45.8, -83.9

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