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| This illustration of a Comanche encampment by American artist George Catlin shows women preparing buffalo hides. Native American women of the Great Plains were expert at working buffalo hides into leather. Most of the hides were made into clothing or sewed together to make coverings for tipis. | ||||||
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| Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC/Art Resource, NY | ||||||
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| Native Americans of North America; Native American Architecture; Comanche | ||||||
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