Dance Leggings
Date1899
Mediumwool, cotton, dentalia shell, glass beads, puffin beaks
DimensionsOther: 32 × 26.5 cm (12 5/8 × 10 7/16 in.)
ClassificationsCeremonial Objects
Terms
Paper Field ReferencesCMH VII-B-1099 (a,b)
Object numberHRC 01099
Descriptionpair of dance leggings, made of squarish rectangles of black wool and cotton broadcloth, the corners rounded. across the upper and lower edges, and across the centre, applied bands of red broadcloth. the centre one is ornamented with a row of dentalium shells, and all thrree have pendant fringes of facetted blue glass beads and bugles and puffin beaks. all sewing is with cotton thread.On View
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