Description (Physical description)
Alison Brown: 'Hide leggings with side fringe and central fringe with cut hem. Decorated with leaf and stem design running the length of the leg at the front.'

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1930.686: 'A Medecine Man's [sic Medicine Man's] dress. Leggings of buffalo hide, shirt probably of buckskin. The headdress is not complete.'
Event Date
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card for 1930.686: 'Bungay' and 'Ojibwa'
Event Date
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Context (Related Documents)
BU 57 refers to the headdress. Rymill's field notes describe it as 'Buffalo horns. Part of a headdress. Goes with BU 26.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
History of display indicated by copper wire, now removed.
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1930.686 A-E: 'A: shirt, probably made from buckskin. B & C: leggings, made from buffalo hide. D: breech cloth. E: headdress, which is not complete.'



Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

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 (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 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. 
Event Date 2014
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Pair of hide or leather leggings decorated with fringes and bead embroidery. Each legging is made two panels of leather sewn together with side and central fringes; decorated with leaf and stem motif in blue, green and red glass seed beads; leg tapers very slightly towards ankle with a zigzag edge at the bottom; loop of leather at top of each. Part of an outfit worn by a ritual specialist or shaman, 1930.686 A-E.
Event Date 16/1/2025
Author: Katrina Dring