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PARFLECHE ELLIPTICAL CASE
Sioux
Northern Plains
ca. 1880
hide, paint
length: 11"
width: 4 ½"
Inventory # CP4311-89
Please contact the gallery for more information.
PROVENANCE
Ex. Mike Maxwell Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Morningstar Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, ON
Private collection, Toronto, ON (1994)
RELATED EXAMPLES
Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Cat. No. 14/3398 - See: Torrence, Gaylord. The American Indian Parfleche: A Tradition of Abstract Painting. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994, pg. 102. pl. 19, for a full-size Sioux elliptical container collected among the Blackfeet
Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Cat. No. 18/1965 - See: Ibid, pg. 101, pl. 18 for another full-size elliptical case collected from the Santee Sioux

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