see also... Plains Jackets see also...frontier shirts

Shirt is loosely based on the Lakota war shirt presented by Little Big Man, who said it allegedly had once belonged to Crazy Horse, or that it had at least been worn by him. According to family history however, the shirt cannot have belonged to the great Lakota chief, who never kept scalps he took in war but instead left them upon the ground

This example is made of deer hide with beaded strips (lazy stitch), horse hair, beaded embellishments, trade beads, fringe, red trade cloth, coup marks, and natural clay earth pigment paints, rabbit fur, etc.