Pair of Sioux Pictorial Beaded Hide Leggings

each lined with green silk cloth, finely sewn in numerous shades of faceted and globular seed beads against the softly tanned hide ground, with a rooster, an elk and a concentric floral medallion on the cuff, the lower panel with a six-pointed star, surmounted by a pair of opposed American flags, enclosed by foliate motifs.

Private Santa Fe Collection
Sold Sotheby's New York, December 1997, lot 460
Jonathan Batkin Collection, Santa Fe
Acquired from David Cook Galleries, Denver CO