Black wool broadcloth, glass silk beads and blue silk ribbon.

Each a single piece of fabric folded in half and incurved at the ankle. Blue silk ribbon is sewn along the outer vertical edges of the leggings together with white opaque glass beads which are hand sewn along both the outer and inner edges of the ribbon. Along the lower edges of the leggings is a floral design constructed out of multi-coloured glass beads which bands around the front and back of both leggings. The interior, lower edges of the leggings are covered by a piece of cotton fabric with a floral and striped pattern. The beading is on sinew, and couched with cotton sewing thread.

The beadwork on the lower edge of the leggings is a highly naturalisitic floral pattern and is underlaid with a paper cut-out

Clothing. Ceremonial purpose.

CMC Catalogue information. The band of stylized flowers with tendrils in couched multi-coloured beads reflects a later stylistic development

Collected by Edward Harris, a fur broker to the Hudson's Bay Company ca. 1870, at the London office. Received by the CMC in 1914.

Nova Scotia Museum -August 1973-October 1973

Taken from the CMC accession record