Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of W.E. Richards (possibly a surveyor working in Kansas); purchased by George Heye from an unknown source in 1909.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Inunaina (Arapaho)
- Previous owner
- W. E. Richards, Non-Indian
- Object Name
- Ghost Dance leggings (Image withheld)
- Media/Materials
- Deerhide/deerskin
- Techniques
- Painted
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
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