• Culture/People:

    Denésoliné (Chipewyan)

  • Object name:

    Woman's leggings

  • Date created:

    1890-1910

  • Place:

    Great Slave Lake; Northwest Territories; Canada

  • Media/Materials:

    Wool cloth, glass bead/beads, thread

  • Techniques:

    Sewn, overlay beadwork, edge beaded

  • Collection History/Provenance:

    Collected by Herbert A. Tremayne (1874-ca. 1940, a Hudson's Bay Company employee stationed largely in Winnipeg, Manitoba), probably between 1900 and 1915; purchased by MAI in 1919 using funds donated by MAI trustee Harmon W. Hendricks (1846-1928).

  • Dimensions:

    40 x 48 cm

  • Catalog number:

    9/2497

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