- Date
- 1925 – 1935
- Material
- skin; fibre; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0081 a,b
- Description
- A pair of leggings of pieced white buckskin, edges pinked, and thongs drawn through to the front to form a sparse fringe beside the beadstrip decoration. Beadstrip is of white ground with small blue diamonds with white and red interiors stemming from square stepped triangles with red crosses in the…
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- Title
- Beaded Leggings
- Date
- 1925 – 1935
- Material
- skin; fibre; glass
- Dimensions
- 36.0 x 81.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of leggings of pieced white buckskin, edges pinked, and thongs drawn through to the front to form a sparse fringe beside the beadstrip decoration. Beadstrip is of white ground with small blue diamonds with white and red interiors stemming from square stepped triangles with red crosses in the middle. At the ends are three blue bordered yellow hourglass like figures. The bead strip is beaded canvas which has been sewn to the legging.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0081 a,b
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