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9" (23 cm.) The wooden-framed tepee is covered authentically with stretched kidskin, with lacing to close entry flaps, and with hand-painted symbols and decorations, along with the inscription "Happy Birthday to Shirley From Pawnee Bill Indian Trading Post". Along with a photograph of Pawnee Bill (Gordon W. Lillie) with an inscription to Shirley Temple "To America's greatest child picture star" signed G W Lillie "Pawnee Bill" , dated 1938. The legendary horseman had presented his Wild West Show throughout Europe and America, sometimes in conjunction with Buffalo Bill, and during the earliest film days of the 1900s had starred in several Westerns. Throughout the late 1920s and 1930s he continued to pursue film ventures in Hollywood, with little avail, but maintained his close connections to film land personalities, possibly meeting the young Shirley Temple at some occasion. He died in 1942.