Leggings For Doll
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Apr 1993
name: label: Donor Name
content: Office Of Public Programs
notes: label: Notes
content: LEGGINGS FOR DOLL CATALOG NUMBER E428922. BRAIN-TANNED DOE SKIN. 1830S -1840S STYLE. DRAWINGS APPLIED WITH "HIGGINS AND PELICAN" DRAWING INK WHICH IS FADING. RED HAS ALSO BLED INTO DOE SKIN. HUMAN HAIR ATTACHED TO LEGGINGS WITH NYLON WAXED THREAD. LEFT LEG HAS DARK HAIR. RIGHT LEG HAS BLOND HAIR. EACH CLUMP OF HAIR HAS STERLING SILVER BEAD AND IS WRAPPED IN BLUE SYNTHETIC FELT BAND TIED WITH NYLON WAXED THREAD. SILVER BEADS SHOW EXTENSIVE TARNISHING. SYMBOLISM ON LEGGINGS REPRESENTS CONFLICT BETWEEN MILITARY AND NATIVE AMERICANS AT BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN. BLACK HAIR REPRESENTS NATIVE AMERICANS. BLOND HAIR REPRESENTS GENERAL CUSTER AND THE MILITARY. RIGHT LEGGING HAS DRAWING OF FLINTLOCK RIFLES TO REPRESENT NATIVE AMERICAN FLINTLOCK GUNS. RIGHT LEGGING HAS DRAWING OF BLUE BALLS REPRESENTING BULLETS. RED LINES REPRESENT PATH OF BULLETS. TABS AT TOP OF LEGGINGS SEWN ON WITH NYLON THREAD TO REPRESENT DEER LEGS, ALSO ON BOTTOM. NARROW STRIP OF WHITE AND RED WHITE HEART GLASS SEED BEADS. EACH LEGGING HAS DRAGON FLY MOTIF IN YELLOW, AND DARK AND LIGHT BLUE GLASS SEED BEADS. SEE ACCESSION RECORDS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jan 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Lakota
label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Hunkpapa Lakota
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 390905
label: USNM Number
content: E428923-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Legging
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 30 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 10 cm