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Collection: Warnock
Item Number: WC8709017
Category: Robe - Buffalo Robe
Region: Southwest
Tribe: Apache - Mescalero
Period: 1825-1850
Materials: Native tanned buffalo (full hide); red, blue and black paint.
Description: Painted buffalo hide decorated with abstract designs (the symbolism not known). Repetitive designs fan across top of robe, other repetitive designs run horizontally across middle, and a border across bottom. Description based on orienting robe from head (as top) to tail (as bottom).
Dimensions: Length 70 inches 171.8 cm.
Provenance:
Alexander Gallery
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corporation
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