woman's leggings

woman's leggings

woman's leggings

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Introduction

Woman's leggings. Hodenosaunee, from the Grand River Reservation in Ontario. Collected by Joseph W. Keppler and acquired by the National Museum of the American Indian in 1906.

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

Information from catalogue card.

Place of Origin: Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Information from the catalogue card.

Materials

red woolen cloth with a black dyed selvedge line running horizontally along the top of each legging, navy cloth, navy silken ribbon, beige thread, opaque white beads sizes 16 and 12.

Motifs and Patterns

Bottom: bottom to top: two rows of chained circles with size 10 beads in the centre of each circle/row of outward curving 3-curve motifs, bases embellished with a single size 10 bead in the centre.
Side: row of chained circles with size 10 beads in the centre of each circle/ row of zig zags

Dimensions: 38 × 21 × 0 cm
Condition: There is a bit of staining on one of the leggings, and some brownish residue on some of the beads.
Current Location: National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 011751
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1906
Collection Narratives and Histories

Joseph W. Keppler

Publication History

Used as an example of wool trade cloth on an NMAI website: http://www.americanindian.si.edu/wooltrade/artifactDetailDB.asp?accessi…

GKS Reference Number: 26337
Record Creation Context

This record was created by Stacey Loyer while at the NMAI on a Visiting Student fellowship, November 3-December 15 2009.

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