A parfleche is a type of wallet or bag made from rawhide. Historically made by Plateau, Great Basin, and Plains women, they are usually decorated with brightly colored geometrical designs.[1]
A parfleche is a Native American rawhide container that is embellished by painting, incising, or both.
Envelope-shaped parfleches have historically been used to contain items such as household tools or foods, such as dried meat or pemmican. They were commonly made in pairs and hung from saddles. Their designs may have once served as maps.[2] In contemporary usage, they may carry social, spiritual, and symbolic meaning, or be part of dance or parade regalia.
The bags are usually decorated with a distinctive style of graphic artwork, often symbolizing landscape features such as rivers and mountains.[2] Historically women were the main creators of parfleches,[1] first painting stretched-out raw hides, then shaping them into their final form. In the 21st century, both women and men make them.
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A parfleche is a Native American rawhide container that is embellished by painting, incising, or both. Envelope-shaped parfleches have historically been...
prepared meats to make pemmican. Dogs were used to pull travois and rawhide parfleche that contained camping goods for short moves. The Kiowa tended to stay...
painting on either tanned or raw animal hides. Tipis, tipi liners, shields, parfleches, robes, clothing, drums, and winter counts could all be painted. Art historian...
primarily a tasty, high-energy food reserved for war parties. Carried in a parfleche pouch, pemmican was eaten only when the men did not have time to hunt...
tallow. Skulls can be used ceremonially as altars. Rawhide is used for parfleches, shield covers, and moccasin soles. Hides with the fur are used for blankets...
studios and use diverse media in both traditional Lakota artforms, such as parfleche and beadwork, and contemporary styles. Oglala are becoming involved in...
rattan and bamboo. There are also pasiking specimens utilizing deer hide (parfleche), wood, whole turtle shell, and at least one documented sample in crocodile...
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Buckskin Colambre Goatskin (material) History of clothing and textiles Parfleche Plains hide painting Waterskin Gilligan, Ian (March 2010). "The Prehistoric...
lodge. Instead of rawhide bags of many shapes and sizes, the women made parfleches from now on.: 327 Both the Salish-Tunaxe and the Semteuse were almost...
Winter counts. Women painted geometric designs on tanned robes and rawhide parfleches, which sometimes served as maps. During the Reservation Era of the late...
historically painted abstract geometrical designs, such as those found in parfleches, whereas men paint representational designs. The men's designs were often...
“Starblanket Heaven”, Bismarck Art Gallery Association, Bismarck, ND 2003: “Parfleche Visions and Moon Breast Mothers”, New Century Artists, New York 1979:...
classic Native American designs — specifically Navajo textiles or Plains parfleches, painted rawhide containers — while also aligning with the Art Nouveau...
historically Plains women painted geometrical designs, such as those found on parfleches rather than narrative, representational work. Flora Belle Schrock (Kiowa...
Foundation that was established in 1977. Collections include baskets, parfleches, corn husk bags, dolls, spoons, cradles, moccasins, tomahawks, pipes,...
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1930. Spier, Leslie. Plains Indian Parfleche Designs. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1931. Spier, Leslie...
theme, Fields created a series of clay parfleches. She was especially interested in the metaphor these parfleches provided of the culture of the times and...
12 tribes in Montana. The 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) building has Parfleche patterns that represent the 12 tribes etched and stained onto the floor...
paintings are of American landscape with basket, weaving, pottery or parflêche patterns of the Native American people who live or lived in that same...
surmounting the shield a buffalo skull, in its proper colors, charged with a parfleche pouch, in its proper colors; the pouch marked with a symbolic design in...
Boil-in-bag Fuel bladder Mashk Milk bag Packet (container) Paper bag Paper sack Parfleche Pastry bag Pipe bag Plastic bag Purdue Improved Crop Storage bags Reusable...
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