Pair of Legging Strips
Niitsitapii (Blackfoot / Blackfeet)
Central Plains
Plains
about 1900
Hide, cotton cloth, glass trade beads, thread
Overall: 26 9/16 × 3 9/16 in. (67.5 × 9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Eleanor Clark French, Class of 1930W
989.41.27061
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clothing: Accessory
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 3, Intro to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Winter 2019
ANTH 3, Intro to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Winter 2019
Provenance
Collected by Elizabeth Conway Clark, Fort Riley, Kansas, before 1907; to her daughter Mrs. John [Eleanor Clark] French; given to present collection, 1989.
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