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Sioux Artist
Leggings, c. 1880-1890
Beads on leather
x 13 3/8 in. ( x 34 cm)
Creation Place:
North America, Native American
Technique:
Leatherworking and beadworking
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Edward H. Angle
Accession Number:
P2015a,b
Leggings with wide beadwork bands around the edges and up the sides. Narrow white and blue beadwork edging along the bottom and up the sides. Decorated with red and blue step-pyramids on white.
Materials
glass beads and leather
Commentary
The Sioux beadwork format originally consisted of simple geometric patterns, ofthen including isosceles trangles, worked on a light ground. Blue and red on a white ground were the most frequently used combinations. After the 1870s, Sioux design became much more complex (Cat. No. 249). Lazy stitching is the most widely used technique in Sioux work. The patterns of the beadwork on leggings, in ctrast to the decoration of dresses (Cat. No. 135) is usually more complex (Wissler, 1904, p. 253). -from the Native American Art from the Permanent Collection catalog, 1976
Bibliography
Kay Koeninger and Joanne M. Mack, "Native American Art from the Permanent Collection" (Claremont: Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, 1979), 26 (illustrated/bw) fig. 32.
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Ways of Seeing/Exhibiting American Indian Art: The Pomona College Collection Montgomery Gallery , 1/19/1994 - 3/20/1994
Bibliography List
This object has the following bibliographic references:
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Native American Art from the Permanent Collection.
Native American Art from the Permanent Collection
Galleries of the Claremont Colleges.
Claremont, CA, 1979
Page Number: 26, Figure Number: 32
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