Leggings

Arts of the Americas

c. 1895

Artist unknown (Comanche, Nʉmʉnʉʉ)
Southern Plains

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Comanche Nation
Title: Leggings
Place: Southern Plains (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1890–1900
Medium: Deer skin, horse hair, glass beads, and pigment
Inscriptions: Left legging inscribed recto interior, top, in white ink: "P+5b [underlined] / GD". Right legging inscribed recto interior, top, in white ink: "P+5a [underlined] / GD".
Dimensions: Left: 87.2 × 37.3 cm (34 3/8 × 14 11/16 in.); Right: 83.9 × 38.9 cm (33 1/16 × 15 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Powell Family in memory of their parents Father Peter Powell and Virginia Raisch Powell
Reference Number: 2023.1380a-b

Evan M. Maurer, The Native American Heritage: A Survey of North American Indian Art, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 196, cat. 262 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Native American Heritage: A Survey of North American Indian Art, July 16–Oct. 30, 1977, cat. 262.

Reportedly owned by Quanah Parker (c. 1850-1911) [this and the following according to Mauer 1977, 196]; collected at Fort Sill, Indian Territory (now OK), 1899. J.H. [Jacob Howard] Euston (1892-1965), Chicago, by 1965 [this and the following according to letter from Father Peter J. Powell, Sept. 11, 2018; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to Father Peter J. Powell (1928-2022), Chicago, 1965 [on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from Feb. 24 1977, incoming receipt, RX10969; copy in curatorial object file; Maurer 1977]; by descent to his estate, 2022; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

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