The lot features a fantastic beaded hide Buffalo / Bison Medicine Man Fetish / Charm from the Lakota Sioux of the Northern Plains. The piece exhibits an Indian tanned hide fetish in the shape of a Buffalo / Bison head with Indian hide ears, beaded face and horns atop. The back has Indian hide ties with Indian hide fringes. The fringes have wound glass sky padre early trade beads, dew claw beads and ribbon fringes. The face of the Buffalo shows a split design with petit glass trade seed beads of an old age in chalk whtie and red white heart. The horns appear to be a dark bone, likely carved petrified Wooly Mammoth tusk. The entire piece has a dark stain coloring across the piece, even under the beads. Appears to be a vintage to older piece, but age is unknown. Soft hide. The buffalo head by itself without fringes is about 5 1/8"H by 3.75"W. The fringes make the piece about 14"L.