leggings, women's

leggings, women's

leggings, women's

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Introduction

These relatives are a pair of Hodenosaunee woman's leggings with white beaded borders. Composed of blue flannel or woolen cloth, beige cotton cloth, red cotton tape, and small white glass seed beads, these leggings feature beadwork that includes undulating lines and trefoil motifs.

These relatives were collected by Charles Hallowell Stephens on June 28, 1908, from a Philadelphia dealer named Osborn. Osborn's whole collection was left to his son D. Owen Stephens, whose wife sold it to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1945, where these relatives currently reside.

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

The style is Haudenosaunee.

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

The information in this record is based on museum documentation.

Materials

blue flannel or woolen cloth; beige cotton cloth; red cotton tape; small (size 12?) white glass seed beads; beige thread; black thread.

Techniques or Format

Each legging is lined with beige cotton and edged with red cotton tape and a single picot beaded border.

Motifs and Patterns

The beadwork is done in undulating lines and trefoil motifs.

Dimensions: 42.5 × 0 × 0 cm
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

They entered Stephens's collection June 28, 1908, according to the catalogue card.

Current Location: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 45-15-287A & 45-15-287B
Link to Institution's Collections Database: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/564076
Collection at Current Location: Charles H. Stephens Collection
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1945
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: These relatives were purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens in 1945.
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: Before 1908
Collection Narratives and Histories

According to the museum's catalogue card, these relatives were collected by Charles Hallowell Stephens on June 28, 1908, from a Philadelphia dealer named Osborn. His whole collection was left to his son D. Owen Stephens, whose wife sold it to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1945, where these relatives currently reside.

Source for Provenance information

Museum documentation.

GKS Reference Number: 25780
How to Cite this Item

Maker, Name unrecorded. Leggings, women's. GRASAC ID 25780. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 45-15-287A & 45-15-287B.

Record Creation Context

This information was gathered during a GRASAC study visit, participants included: David Penney, Ruth Phillips, Stacey Loyer, and William Wierzbowski, December 3, 2009.
This record was augmented by Joy Kruse on March 22, 2025.

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