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66 x 85 Painted Buffalo Robe circa 1860 75 Made and worn by a Lakota Woman with painted box and border line designs, the box design represents the internal organs for the buffalo, the boarder line designs stress the importance of the buffalo to the livelihood of the Plains Indians, a very important and rare item! similar to the example at University Museum, References: Visions of the People page 289 University of Pa. exhibit #306 American Indian Art Winter 1991 page 103, Trotto, Bono

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