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Pair of Parfleche Envelopes
Southern Cheyenne
Central Plains
Central Plains
ca. 1900
hide, paint
width: 14 ½"
length: 26 ½"
Inventory # CP4311-166
Sold
PROVENANCE
Canfield Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Private collection, Toronto, ON
RELATED EXAMPLES
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2012, pg. 99, pl. 39 (sold for $60,000 USD in 2013), painted by the same hand as subject Pair of Parfleche Envelopes
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody Wyoming, with matching case in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, Cat. No. 97117 - See: Torrence, Gaylord. The American Indian Parfleche: A Tradition of Abstract Painting. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994, pg 114, pl. 28
Ibid, pg. 111, pl. 25, for a pair of Cheyenne parfleche envelopes (Private Collection)
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