Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased from Frank Seawell Sneed (1876-1936, a storekeeper in Lawton, Oklahoma) in 1909 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Kiowa
- Seller
- Frank Seawell Sneed (Francis S. Sneed/F. S. Sneed), Non-Indian, 1876-1936
- MAI agent
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Object Name
- Man's leggings
- Media/Materials
- Hide, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Lazy/lane stitch beadwork , painted
- Dimensions
- 54 x 25 cm
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments
- Indigenous Term
- ka te
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