Painted Hide Leggings

Painted Hide Leggings

915.40.2.2.1-2

These painted hide leggings are made from caribou hide. There are four horizontal bands with motifs of diamonds and horizontal lines in red and bright blue (probably bluing laundry soap).

1910

Innu (Montagnais-Naskapi)

Natuashish, Labrador and Newfoundland

Caribou hide, red and blue pigment, sinew

Gift of Sir William Mackenzie. "Probably collected by Robert J. Flaherty. In 1910, the CNR commissioned him (1884 – 1951) to search for iron ore deposits along the northeast coast of Hudson's Bay.

https://iris.siue.edu/anishinaaberegalia/items/show/60
dress 915.40.2.1

55.91564, -61.12415 (N 55°54′56″ W 61°07′27″)

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