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Sioux Horse Stealing Bandolier

Original price was: $239.99.Current price is: $190.82.

SKU: FUEOK438121 Category:

Description

Sioux made horse sitting bandolier of rolled brain tanned buffalo hide over fiber covered with red ochre and attached horse teeth. Outside loop with three cross bands. 21 teeth with at least 8 more missing. Assume each tooth represented a captured horse. Powerful medicine piece worn by a warrior successful in raiding horses from enemy tribes.

PERIOD: Mid 19th Century

ORIGIN: Great Plains – Sioux, Native American

SIZE: 19”L