Rare treasures for intrepid explorers

Costumes & props from iconic westerns

Rare treasures for intrepid explorers

Costumes & props from iconic westerns

Painted Buffalo Robe

A beautifully hand-tanned Buffalo robe with winter fur, painted with a warrior’s exploits 

surrounding a central sunburst motif. Robes such as these were worn as winter cloaks and hung in the back of the lodge. They were in fact, a warriors biography.

MATERIAL: Winter fur-on hide, skived down to Robe suppleness and tanned with brains

in the tradition of the Northern Plains peoples. Earth pigments painted with bone brushes.

ORIGIN:  Cathy A. Smith original, 1999

SIZE: 78″ head to tail, 79″ leg to leg width, 48″ width at narrowest point

$10,500.00

In stock

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