Legging Strip or Belt
Cree
First Nation
Northern Plains
Plains
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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