A matched pair of Blackfeet painted buffalo hide parfleche envelopes with remnants of painted decorations and colors of red, blue and yellow. Holes punched to carry on horseback. Collected from a Blackfeet family in Heartbeat, Montana. Extremely rare.
PERIOD: Last Half 19th Century
ORIGIN: Great Plains - Blackfeet, Native American
SIZE: 24" x 14 1/2" and 23" x 13 1/2"