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Technique and Dimensions:
Unsealed, scraped, dried, cut and painted elk skin with natural pigments
Location:
C.A. 1682
Provenance:
Donation of Missioni Cattoliche Americane, 1893
Parfleche (transport container for clothes and supplies); usually in pairs, they were tied to the sides of the horse with decorative motifs Arapaho, probably the result of exchange with the Dakota, (women performed geometric patterns, men naturalistic drawings)
