Leggings
Artist
Dakota
MediumLeather
ClassificationsCostume
Credit LineDr. Henry Louderbough
Object number1936.9.18.1-.2
DescriptionThis legging has been created in a thin hide. Some sewing has been done on a sewing machine. On the top, the inside has been lined with a piece of canvas. Alternate vertical stripes of green and yellow are the main decoration on the leggings. The color looks like vegetable dye. The borders have been decorated with beadwork of red, white, blue, and yellow. 1.5 in. to 5 in. fringe tapers down the outside of the leg. ?Alternating next to the designs in the beadwork at two pieces of knotted fringe?.On View
Not on viewCollections
c. 1854
19th/20th century
Yanktonnai Sioux