Offered for sale is this fine, polychrome painted parfleche, rawhide headdress case from the Crow Native American Indians, dating to the 19th Century. The case shows a parfleche rawhide, cylindrical design with hide sewn seem and round parfleche bottom with sinew sewing. The case shows traditional, geometric painting in colors of blue, red, green, and yellow. The case has a thick Buffalo hide and is truly an authentic, Indian Wars era, parfleche piece, unlike the thinner parfleche examples made for the tourist trade. A cylindrical case, such as this, would have held a feathered, Chief’s or elder’s headdress for protection. Provenance: From a historic Eastern Montana American Indian Collection, where the piece was found to be an authentic original, one of the finest collections of American Indian weaponry and antiquities in Montana. Measures 16”L by 3.5”W.