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War Shirt

Blackfoot
Alberta or North Dakota

ca. 1880

hide, glass beads, ermine tails cotton and wool cloth, feathers brass bells, paint

height: 39"
width: to sleeve ends: 78"

Inventory # P1830

Sold

L.D. Bax, Denver, Colorado
Paul Grey, Cincinnati, Ohio
Robert Vandenburg, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Denver Art Museum, No. 1947.86 - See: Circles of the World, Denver Art Museum, 1982, pl. 102

This Blackfoot war shirt is decorated with transformational "tadpole" images