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Cheyenne style war shirt, 1860
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Maker: Lukáš Navrátil
Materials: Wet-scraped brain-tanned hides, antique seed beads, human hair, horse hairs, porcupine quills, animal sinew, earth pigment.
Made in: 2021
Description: Cheyenne-style war shirt, circa 1860. During this period, Cheyenne war shirts were primarily crafted from deerskin or pronghorn hides. The design of the strips was often very simple, even primitive, consisting mostly of a white background and several dark panels. Shirts from this era were commonly dyed with natural earth pigments—green and yellow, or blue and yellow, or potentially other colors. The strips are fringed with locks of human hair made from captured enemy scalps, with red-dyed horsehair used for contrast. All scalp locks are wrapped at the ends with white porcupine quills.