- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- A pair [.1-.2] of leather leggings.
- Long description
- Pair of supple deer skin leggings, open at the thigh but then tapered and seamed to the ankle. A cut fringe (cut from the hide, not applied) runs on the outside edge of the seamed section. The leggings are plain with no applied decoration. [HR 2/4/2003]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Edward Martin Hopkins
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- PRM source Edward Martin Hopkins
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1800-1850
- Date collected
- 1842
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884, uncertain Purchased: 1893, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Deer Skin Animal, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1265 mm, Length: max 1260 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1893.67.13.1 Accession number: 1893.67.13.2 Other PRM accession number: 1884.88.a
Search terms: Clothing Footgear, Legging
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