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5A SIOUX BUFFALO HIDE FLATCASE

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5A SIOUX BUFFALO HIDE FLATCASE

Of rectangular form with hide sewn side seams and serrated edge overflap. Painted design divided into two panels framed with blue border and outlining in brown, opposing triangle designs in red, green and yellow trim, 7½in. (19cm.) long

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Mable Morrow illustrates a Santee Sioux example of a parfleche envelope with the same pattern (Morrow, 1974, p. 123 top). The provenance of Morrow's example is traced back to its manufacture by Mdewakanton Dakotas before 1860. It is likely our flat case is of the same period.