buffalo robe
Plains hide wrap
A buffalo robe is the hide of an American bison, tanned with the fur intact and used as a blanket, bedding, or winter covering.
Before widespread bison slaughter in the nineteenth century, Native American peoples produced them for their own use and for trade: wrapped in a buffalo robe against the cold.
- furAnimal body hair
- bisonLarge wild ox
- quillworkEmbroidery with porcupine spines
- blanketSoft bed covering
- hideConceal or pelt
beadwork · fur trade · pemmican · Great Plains · tribal nations · Plains Indians · covering · rug · prairie grass · skin · tanning · hunting grounds · warmth · plains bison · coureurs des bois · protection · medicine wheel · spirit animal
- Native Craftsnative crafts, moccasins, beaded moccasins, dreamcatchers, war bonnet
- Plains IndiansSioux, Lakota, Cheyenne, Comanche, Blackfoot
- Plains IndigenousCree, Blackfoot, Dakota, Lakota, tipi
- Crow Tribetobacco ceremony, clan mother, clans
material/construction
buffalo robewoven blanket
Interlaced fiber bedcover
cotton fabric · linen cloth · silk · fleece blanket · canvas
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