Leggings

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

1880–90

Artist unknown (Blackfoot, Niitsitapi, possibly Blackfeet Nation, Aamskapi Piikáni)
Northern Plains

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Blackfeet
Title: Leggings
Place: Northern 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.: 1880–1890
Medium: Deer hide, ermine skin, beads, and pigment
Dimensions: Each, approx.: 89.2 × 43.2 cm (35 1/8 × 17 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Powell Family in memory of their parents Father Peter Powell and Virginia Raisch Powell
Reference Number: 2023.1392a-b
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Evan M. Maurer, The Native American Heritage: A Survey of North American Indian Art, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 187, cat. 244 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Native American Heritage: A Survey of North American Indian Art, July 16–Oct. 30, 1977, cat. 244.

Sold Sotheby’s, New York, Dec. 13, 1974, lot 109, to Father Peter J. Powell (1928-2022), Chicago; by descent to his estate, 2022; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

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