The lot features a fabulous 19th-century Plains Native American Buffalo Runner Blanket Gun with Indian hide scabbard sheath collected from the Indian Reservation on the Saskatchewan Trail by Andre Amulet a French-Canadian Forest Ranger, ex-Jack Lauer and Ken Kenowski. Professionally framed in antique barnwood with the provenance documented inside the display. The lot shows a double barrel, side-by-side percussion cap black powder shotgun with exposed side hammers from mid-1800’s. The shotgun would have been traded, an annuity or war prize on the Frontier by a Plains Native American and was subsequently cut short at the grip and barrel and further wrapped in parfleche rawhide around the foregrip at the barrel and adorned with brass trade tacks. The blanket gun (which can also be referred to as a Blanket Rifle, Buffalo Runner Gun, Canoe Gun or Blanket Pistol) has also commonly been referred to as the Buffalo Runner gun; young Indian hunters who would dress up as Buffalo and lead the Buffalo off a cliff (or Buffalo Jump), the hunter jumping to a ledge as the Buffalo fall to their death, many Buffalo Runners did not survive. Many Buffalo Runners carried shortened rifles such as this to kill Buffalo in close range. The blanket gun is paired with what appears to be an original sheath scabbard with shoulder strap comprised of Indian tanned buffalo hide showing remnants of green and red ocher / ochre mineral pigment powder paint adorned with five original U.S. Army Civil War to Indian Wars circa 1860-1880 brass uniform buttons showing the United States bald eagle seal embossed on the button. The piece shows frilled Indian hide fringes with green mineral paint, fringes of old trade clothe, a gasket of old trade clothe behind each button and feathers which are wrapped in old red trade clothe and hide tied. The piece shows rawhide lacing sewing. The rifle scabbard shows a Southern Plains to Plains design. During the U.S. Indian Wars, following the Battle of the Little Bighorn / Custer’s Last Stand many of the warriors fled from Montana to northern Canada where many eventually settled on Reservations over the coming many years including the Sioux, Lakota, Dene, Dakota, Cree Assiniboine, Saulteaux, Atsina an Blackfoot. This piece likely fled the Indian Wars of the Plains to find refuge on the Saskatchewan Trail where it was collected by Andre Amulet a French-Canadian Forest Ranger directly from the reservation. Provenance: Acquired from the Indian Reservation on the Saskatchewan Trail by Andre Amulet a French Canadian Forest Ranger from Strawbridge, Canada; ex-collection of Jack Lauer Marshalls Creek, PA in 1991; Lauer sold it to Ken Kenowski, Hawley, PA in 2003; ex-Minnesota collection, acquired from Cordier in 2016. The piece is professionally framed showing antique barnwood with a tanned leather back matting and shows the documented provenance which reads as such, “American Indian / Underblanket gun with holster, decorated with army buttons and 6 feathers (3 original in holster) purchased from Andre Amulet, French Canadian Forest Ranger from Strawbridge, Canada, (Montreal Area), who acquired this from an Indian Reservation on the Saskatchewan Trail. / Purchased by Jack Lauer, Marshalls Creek, PA in 1999 who in turn sold it to Ken Kenowski, Hawley, PA in2003. / Stock #31700”. The display is well kept and in very good condition with no major damages and measures overall 32 7/8-inches by 22.25-inches and 6.75-inches deep / thick. The gun by itself without the fringes or scabbard appears to measures approx. 19.5-inches long.