Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown, but said to have been brought to England in the late 1880s ; formerly in the collection of Beatrice Minnie Cooper Kauper (Mrs. Henry Alexis Kauper, 1896-1968, of Surrey, England); purchased by MAI from Beatrice Kauper in 1964 with funds donated by MAI Trustee Stanley R. Grant (1918-1993).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Northern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Previous owner
- Beatrice Minnie Kauper (Beatrice Minnie Cooper/Mrs. Henry Alexis Kauper), Non-Indian, 1896-1968
- Seller
- Beatrice Minnie Kauper (Beatrice Minnie Cooper/Mrs. Henry Alexis Kauper), Non-Indian, 1896-1968
- Presenter/funding source
- Stanley R. Grant, Non-Indian, 1918-1993
- Date created
- 1875-1890
- Object Name
- Man's leggings
- Media/Materials
- Deerhide/deerskin, fur, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Lazy/lane stitch beadwork , painted
- Dimensions
- 103 x 47 cm
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments
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