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Sunday, 04 December 2016 10:55

Bison Hide with Embroidery, America

Bison hide with simple embroidery, acquired in the Gros Ventre region of the (modern) USA by Maximilian zu Wied in the early nineteenth century.

The Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin holds a bison hide with some simple embroidery. The hide measures 271 x 218 cm. It was acquired c. 1832-1834 by the German explorer, Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782-1867), from the Gros Ventre region (North Central Montana) in the (modern) USA.

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