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“Breastplate” is a warior's ornament for the upper torso, made of long tubes (called “hairpipes”) and various beads (metal, shell or glass), divided by thick leather spacers in a number of sections hanging down over torso to protect from injury. Breastplate is an item of medicine significance or an item that shows men's status.

	Southern Plains Breastplate with Gorget (replica) SKU: 4023.08.01 Historically accurate replica of a bone hairpipe breastplate with German silver gorget of the Indian Wars era (c. 1870s) made for me by brilliant American Plains artists More details

	Shell hairpipe breastplate with Gorget (replica) SKU: 4034.08.01 Historically accurate replica of a shell hairpipe breastplate with German silver gorget of the Indian Wars era (c. 1870s) made for me by prominent German Plains artist More details

	Lakota Breastplate (replica) SKU: 2075.09.01 Premium quality reproduction of late 19th c. Lakota bone hair pipe dance breastplate. Made by me in . More details

	Plains hairpipe breastplate (replica) SKU: 2087.09.01 Inspirational recreation of the Central Plains warrior's bone hairpipe breastplate based on the existing originals and my knowledge of a wide range of Plains style breastplates in the latter quarter of the 19th century and the early reservation period. More details
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