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Antique Native American Painted Parfleche Box, Plateau, 19th Century for sale purchase consign auction art gallery museum denver
Plateau,
circa 1890
 
hide with pigments
8 x 18 ½ x 9 inches
19260
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A box form constructed of rawhide and intricately painted in an abstract design with natural pigments and red trade cloth.

This was created by a North American Indian living in the Plateau cultural area - encompassing portions of what is now northern Idaho, western Montana, northeast and central Oregon, eastern Washington and southeast British Columbia. The tribes from this region include Kalispel, Flathead, Kutenai, Palus, Coeur D'Alene and Nez Perce.

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