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Facts

Also Known As	Absaroka • Apsarokee

Photos

A Crow woman holding an infant in a decorated cradleboard, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1908.

Rectangular parfleche of the Crow people, decorated with geometric patterns in red, yellow, and blue, and tied with leather thongs at the center.

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Topics

Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains Oceti Sakowin Blackfoot Cheyenne Mandan Arikara Hidatsa Comanche Osage Pawnee Assiniboin

Key People

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Robert H. Lowie

American anthropologist