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The Robe Flesher

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Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze of a woman cleaning a buffalo hide. The remarks of the photograph include, "After a kill of buffalo and the meat and hides have been brought into camp the hide, or robe, is staked out on the ground and the woman with a sharp-edged bone scrapes all of the flesh and fat from the hide preparing it for tanning."

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Title(s): 
The Robe Flesher
Creator(s): 
George D. Sack (Author)
Charles Marion Russell (Artist)
Culture: 
American
Date: 
1925
Materials/Techniques: 
gelatin silver process
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
Gilcrease Museum/The University of Tulsa
Accession No: 
TU2009.39.8387.32
Previous Number(s): 
E.422; 45749; E.422 (Colorado Springs number)
Department: 
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