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hardened skin coats. Since armor and helmets were 



used in sonic parts of the North Pacific Coast area 

 and in parts of the Plateaus, it is natural to encounter 



Fig. 33. A Buffalo Hide Shield from the Northern Blackfoot. 



armor on the northwestern margin of the Plains. 

 Poisoned arrows have been credited to the Plateau 

 tribes and a few of those in the western Plains. 



