Bidspirit auction | Blackfoot War Shirt Northern Plains

Blackfoot War Shirt Northern Plains Cir. 1890-1910 - Comes with Christy Lee Fine Arts Paperwork from 1988. ”...made of native tanned deerhide, decorated with very wide, elaborated, beaded strips. beaded hair, and weasel drops. The shirt measures 68 inches across from wrist to wrist and 34 inches high. The neck is covered and laced with red stroud cloth.” ”War shirts of this type were the ultimate status symbol of the Plains Warrior.”