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Plains Polychrome Parfleche Trunk,

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Plains Polychrome Parfleche Trunk,
probably Lakota Sioux, though Western Reserve accession records indicate Arapahoe. Constructed of a single sheet of rawhide, the seams originally sewn with sinew, but now largely replaced with cotton twine, and each corner decorated with an added strip of coarsely woven red blanket wool. With exhuberant polychrome painted decorations of green, yellow and salmon triangles, bordered by rectangles of yellow and salmon highlighted by black and blue paint. The lid decorated with cross-hatched elements of blue and faded salmon; 15" x 8" x 8" Deaccessioned from the Western Reserve Historical Society of Cleveland, Ohio. Flaps of trunk lid mis-shapen, one seam missing several wraps of twine, two bottom seams still sewn with sinew, most ties missing from top.