medicine robe

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among Plains Indians, an animal hide, as that of a buffalo, on which were symbolically represented the wearer's war deeds.

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1873

Its tail formed an ornament for his tent, its inner skin a book in which to sketch the brave deeds of his life, the "medicine robe" of his history.