This is a unique parfleche rawhide polychrome painted drum from the Northern Plains with Buffalo and Shriner Mason symbols from the ex-C.M. Russell Museum Great Falls, Montana and John Kleinschmidt collections. The piece exhibits a bent wood carved stripped rim that is bound together with copper rivets and further covered in a wetted and stretched parfleche rawhide which is secured with rawhide ties and brass covered metal trade tacks around the rim. The outside edge and back strips are painted red and the front has large symbols showing a charging Buffalo / Bison Bull in black and brown and a Shriner Mason symbol above showing the Middle-Eastern swords and six-point star. While Many Shriners and Masons dress up in the Cowboy and Indian fashion, this drum is believed to be from a Northern Plains Indians dating to circa 1930-1940’s, likely Blackfeet or Sioux. For reference of Native Americans and this symbol see the photo example of John Two Guns White Calf wearing the exact symbol, the chief of the Piegan Blackfeet of Montana known for being the portrait on the U.S. Indian head nickel and the Washington Redskins logo. Provenance: From the John Kleinschmidt collection which was on loan to the C.M. Russell Museum from 1987 to 1993 and included in the "The Cowboy West: 100 Years of Photography 1992-1993 exhibit. Catherine A. O'Dell. An attached museum tag reads, "1396-87 O'Dell". Measures 12.75-inch diameter by 2-inch deep. Well kept with small cuts on the front. It was on display at the C.M. Russell museum. A copy of the C.M. Russell Museum paperwork can be available at request.