Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8812004

Category: Leggings - Men's leggings

Region: Southeast

Tribe: Seminole - Lower Creek?

Period: 1825-1850

Materials: White, black, and blue glass seed beads; red wool trade cloth; black silk ribbon; gold plated metal buttons.

Description: Red wool cloth leggings decorated with abstract beaded designs in white, black and blue against the red wool background. Leggings are tailored to open down the front center and to overlap the feet and ankles. Leggings button shut. Silk ribbon edging on borders.

Dimensions: Length 24 inches 61 cm

Provenance:

Mr. & Mrs. Fred Boschan, Pennsylvania
Alexander Gallery
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Exhibitions:

Splendid Heritage, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, May 27, 1995 - September 27, 1995
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, October 23, 1998 - October 3, 1999

References:

Sotheby's Auction Catalogue, Sotheby's, New York, Sale 5785, Lot 46, November 29, 1988
Penny, David W. and George C. Longfish, Native American Art, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Detroit, 1994, pp 56-57

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