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Punctured shirt. ca. 1850. The Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection, acquired through the generosity of the Dyck family and additional gifts of the Nielson Family and the Estate of Margaret S. Coe. NA.202.1209

Treasures from Our West: Nez Perce punctured shirt

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Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2013 Nineteenth-century warriors of the Plateau and Northwestern Plains sometimes wore shirts with perforations for ceremonial and formal occasions. Such shirts signified […]