Accession No
1930.784 C-D
Description
Child's leggings made of deep red wool with purple trim at the ankle cuffs. The tops have not been hemmed. One legging has a hole at the knee.
Place
Americas; North America; Canada
Period
Source
Rymill, Robert [collector]; Clarke, Louis Colvile Gray [monetary donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
1930.784 C-D; CR 82 [Rymill number]
Cultural Affliation
Nehiyawak [Cree]; Plains
Material
Cloth; Wool
Local Term
Measurements
115mm x 15mm x 220mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Red cloth leggings, both trimmed on one edge with dark purple cloth. One of the leggings has a hole (about 5.0cm diameter).
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring
Context (Related Documents)
Brown, Alison K. 1998. Catalogue of the Rymill Collection in the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. MAA Archives FA5/1/12. Copy of the Rymill Collection binders which were created by Alison Brown funded by a Crowther-Beynon grant.
Event Date
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller
Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card for 1930.784 A-F: 'Cree (Plains)'
Event Date
Author: Kirsty Kernohan
Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card for 1930.784 A-F: 'The dress of a young girl. It should be noted that although the child who owned this suit was only about five years old, the money paid for the suit was regarded by her parents as being hers. Her father was unable to sell the suit until after she had consulted her mother.'
Event Date
Author: Kirsty Kernohan
Context (Field collection)
Collected by Robert Rymill with his brother John Rymill and Donald A. Cadzow during the Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies in 1929.
Event Date 1929
Author: Katrina Dring
Context (Display)
Exhibited: Costume on display in the Maudslay Hall until 1986.
Event Date 25/11/1992
Author: Katrina Dring
Description (Physical description)
Child's leggings made of a deep red woollen cloth with purple trim at the ankle cuffs.
The tops have not been hemmed. One legging has a hole at the knee.
Alison Brown.
Event Date 1998
Author: Katrina Dring
Context (References)
Brown, Alison K. 2014. First Nations, Museums, Narrations: Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies. Vancouver: UBC Press., p177 and fig 24
Event Date 2014
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller
Context (Amendments / updates)
Language- Algonquian speakers
Language group affiliations were previously recorded in the cultural group field but this has now been removed.
Event Date 27/3/2020
Author: Katrina Dring
Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.1643 | Repack
Event Date 30/3/2020
Author: Kirstie French
Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.1644 | Repack
Event Date 30/3/2020
Author: Kirstie French
Context (Amendments / updates)
The object image and details were taken from the Rymill Collection binders which were photocopied to produce the unpublished "Catalogue of the Rymill Collection in the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology" by Alison K. Brown, 1998, (MAA Archives FA5/1/12).
Event Date 30/3/2020
Author: Katrina Dring
Description (Physical description)
Child's leggings made of deep red wool with purple trim at the ankle cuffs. The tops have not been hemmed. One legging has a hole at the knee.
Event Date 16/1/2025
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller
Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2025.6135 | Freezing
Event Date 20/1/2025
Author: Kirsty Kernohan
FM:286875
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