Legging Strip or Belt

Cree
First Nation
Northern Plains
Plains

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about 1860

Cloth, glass beads, canvas backing and thread

Overall: 31 5/16 × 2 3/4 in. (79.5 × 7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III

181.2.26039

Geography

Place Made: Saskatchewan River, Canada, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Clothing: Outerwear

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Plains

Not on view

Provenance

Blackfoot "Chief", South Saskatchewan River; Caddo Trading Post, Glenwood, Arkansas; sold to Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, about 1939; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.

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