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CODY, W5USA
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1990
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Assiniboine
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ASSINIBOINE
First Day of Issue: August 17, 1990
First Issue Location: Cody, Wyoming
The showy, elaborate headdress, as in all Assiniboine
clothing, reflected the tribe's taste for the beautiful and
colorful. Materials obtained in trade were often used in
their clothing, with such items as their headdresses con-
taining wool, brass tacks, beads, felt and other cloth. The
headdresses also contained items of the land — eagle
feathers and ermine. Early travelers into the northern
plains of the Assiniboine were immensely impressed by
the tribe. George Catlin, an artist who traveled the area in
1832, noted of the Assiniboine that they “are undoubtedly
the finest-looking, best-equipped, and most beautifully
costumed of any on the Continent ...." Living in the
rolling, open prairie of Saskatchewan and Manitoba,
Canada, the Assiniboine were influenced early on by
British traders of the Hudson Bay Company. The Cree
Indians to the north were close allies of the Assiniboine
and acted as “go-betweens" with their southern neigh-
bors and the British of the Far North.
No. 90-28
©1990 The Maximum Card Collection
A Division of Unicover Corporation Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007
® Original painting by Tom McNeely
