Stone Calf

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Stone Calf
by Kirby Sattler

An honored Cheyenne war leader, Stone Calf, wears a buffalo horned bonnet trimmed with ermine skins and a war shirt of tanned buckskin, organic paints, glass beads, red shroud cloth and scalp locks.  War shirts were imbued with sacred significance; only the most courageous men were allowed to wear them.  As representations of past and future victories, such shirts metaphorically symbolized the survival of the tribe.