Man's Leggings (baleichkíishbaalu)
Peggy White WellKnown Buffalo
Description:
Painted hide leggings with red, blue, yellow, green, and white beadwork. Hair fringe lines half of the leggings.
Culture or Community:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Other Forms:
Date of Creation:
1880
Physical Details:
Media/Materials: Hide, wool cloth, glass bead/beads, porcupine quills, hair
Techniques: Sewn, appliquéd, quill-wrapped (flat), painted, overlay beadwork
Catalog Number:
NMAI Cat. #011067
External Links:
Provenance:
National Museum of the American Indian record: Formerly owned by Deaf Bear (Apsáalooke); collected from him in 1890 by Western painter Edwin Willard Deming (1860-1942); purchased by George Heye from an unknown source circa 1906.
Citation:
Crow. National Museum of American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (Cat. #011067). Video by Peggy White Wellknown Buffalo and Susie Kelly, 2005.
Creators:
Peggy White Wellknown Buffalo Susie Kelly
Keywords:
1880
Beadwork
Fringe
Leggings
Porcupine quills
Wool
Appliquéd
Blue
Glass Beads
Overlay Beadwork
Quill-wrapped (flat)
Wool Cloth
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Clothing
Hair
Painted
Sewn
image
Baleichkíishbaalu
Color images
Hide
Photograph
Skin
material-culture