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Buffalo robe
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A buffalo robe is a cured buffalo hide, with the hair left on.
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They were used as blankets, saddles or as trade items by the Native Americans who inhabited the vast grasslands of the Interior Plains.[1] Some were painted with pictographs or Winter counts that depict important events such as epidemics, famines and battles.[2]