leggings

Artist Santee Sioux Tribe

Dateca. 1860

Terms

Trousers
Buckskin
Quills
Minnesota

Dimensions60.96 × 104.14 cm (24 × 41 in.)

Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis or George Tolman (before 1909)

Object numberTH9C

DescriptionPants with pockets made from Bison hide. Long leather fringe down each leg. Each piece of fringe is wrapped in colored thread at the base with a white bead, where it attaches to the pants' leg. Near the fringe is a vertical band of multi-colored (aniline dyes) quill-work, in a woven pattern. On the thigh of each leg are multi-colored quill-work designs, shaped like

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