LEGGING

Description: SINGLE PIECE OF LEATHER CUT NARROWER AT 1 END. 2 LEATHER STRAPS & BUCKLES & METAL CLIP USE TO TIGHTEN & KEEP LEGGINGS IN PLACE. SEVERAL NUMBERS STAMPED INSIDE IN BLACK INK: "104", "12", "6266". DARK BROWN EXTERIOR.

History: DONOR UNSURE OF DATE BUT BELIEVES CAME FROM KENTUCKY WHEN LANIER BROTHERS IMMIGRATED TO ALBERTA IN EARLY 1900'S. *UPDATE* IN 2018, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF THE BOXED TEXTILE COLLECTION. ON 8 FEBRUARY 2018, PUNDYK INTERVIEWED IKE LANIER ABOUT ARTIFACTS DONATED BY VARIOUS MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY. WHEN ASKED IF HE REMEMBERED THE ARTIFACT, “PROBABLY MY FATHER’S. I DON’T KNOW IF THEY USED THEM IN COLD WEATHER OR NOT. THEY USED BUGGIES AND HORSES IN -. MY DAD RODE QUITE A BIT… MY DAD PROBABLY BROUGHT THEM UP FROM KENTUCKY IN 1909 AND THEN THEY WERE JUST PART OF THE FAMILY. … IT’S JUST AN INTERESTING PIECE OF FRONTIER CLOTHING, I THINK. IT WAS, LIKE A DAY TODAY, WITH SNOW THAT DEEP, IT WOULD BE NICE. THEY WORKED VERY WELL, AND WARMTH WHEN THEY WERE IN A SLEIGH OR BUGGY. I WAS BORN IN ’30 SO – THEY’D ALREADY BEEN HERE TWENTY FIVE YEARS. THEY CAME IN ’09. ANYTHING THAT MADE LIFE A LITTLE MORE COMFORTABLE, WE KEPT. [HE WOULD HAVE WORN THEM] … MORE SO MY FIRST TEN YEARS AND BEFORE THAT, I THINK. FASHIONS CHANGE, YOU KNOW.” PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE P19651574000-GA FOR THE FULL INTERVIEW.