Parfleche Bag. This unusually small bag bears the reverse of the lightning design found on the headwoman's medicine bag (fig. 15). It may have been used to store a buffalo stone, koh?sih?yohn' (lit. "making little tracks in the sand") believed to be invested with supernatural powers for attracting animals and healing abdominal pains.
Cheyenne, c. 1885.
Rawhide, pigment. H: 29 cm.
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago: #67465.


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