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BEADED CRADLE BOARDS BOWS ARROWS AND QUIVERS
BUFFALO HIDE TIPIS PIPE BAGS AND PIPES
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Cheyenne Childs Vest : This vest is a reproduction of a (circa 1880s) children's vest, done in the same old time bead colors as the original which are chalk white, cobalt blue, cranberry red, mustard yellow and a Sioux green. This piece has more then one hundred hours of beadwork. The measurements are 14 inches wide X 14 inches long. $1900.00 |
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This is our most popular shirt, it is our personal interpretation of a shirt called a Hanaskaska Society Shirt .This society was comprised of the wisest man of the tribe it was similar to our supreme court in that they had the final say on disputes. This shirt consists of either Brain-tan or commercial smoke colored hides, Lazy stitch Beadwork, human hair locks, ermine drops, red trade cloth, horse hair scalp lock, earth pigments, deer sinew. $2800.00 for shirt using Brain-tan and $2400.00 for shirt using commercial hides. |
Lakota WarShirt: This shirt consist of either Brain-tan or commercial smoke colored hides, human hair locks, four Lazy stitch strips, earth pigments which are paints made out of hand ground minerals, red trade cloth. This shirt takes two months to complete because of the amount of beadwork. $3800.00 for shirt using Brain-tan and $3250.00 for shirt using commercial hides. |
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| Fully Beaded Brain-tan WarShirt: With quill wrapped human hairlocks. $3800.00 | |
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Northern plains beaded and quilled Warshirt: This shirt consist of brain-tan leather, lazystich beaded strips, quilled rosette, ermine drops, human hair locks, earth pigments, trade cloth and deer sinew. $3600.00 |
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Crow war shirt:
This shirt consist of brain-tan or commercial leather, four Appliqué beaded strips, human hair locks, ermine drops and earth pigments.
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| Arapaho Ghost Dance Shirt: The Ghost dance was inspired by visions of a paiute medicine man named Wovoka he believed these visions promised the return of the buffalo and a restoration of the traditional world prior to the arrival of Europeans. This shirt consist of brain-tan hide, earth pigments, imitation crow feathers $895.00 | |
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Brain-tan
Bear Track Quilled Warshirt with quilled
human hair locks. $ 5200.00
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Northern Plains Elk Tooth dress: This is a reproduction of a dress (circa 1880) It is adorned with lazy stitch beadwork, elk teeth, trade cloth, bonehair pipes and a magnificent tool belt that carries the woman's beaded awl case with awl , parfletch knife case with knife and medicine bag. $3800.00 |
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Northern
Plains Elk Tooth dress: This is a
reproduction of a dress (circa 1880) It is adorned with lazy stitch
beadwork, elk teeth, trade cloth, bonehair pipes and a magnificent tool
belt that carries the woman's beaded awl case with awl , parfletch knife
case with knife and medicine bag. $3800.00 (Back to the top) |
| Fully Beaded Lakota Dress with Cheyenne Cradle: (The dress is pictured backwards, the slit at the top should be on the back). Dress $7000.00 Cradleboard $3800.00 | |
This is a reproduction of a Man's Buffalo Robe (circa 1880). The robe is brain-tanned the same way Indians have done for thousands of years. It has seven beaded rosettes in the center of the war bonnet designs. It is painted with earth pigments. This robe is a #1 Prime with heavy winter wool. Beautiful hide $3000.00 |
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| This is a reproduction of a Man's Buffalo Robe (circa 1865). The robe is brain-tanned the same way Indians have done for thousands of years. This design is called feather bonnet it is also called a star burst design. It has two lazystich beaded strips, beaded rosette, two medicine bundles that consist of buffalo hair, sweetgrass, sage, tobacco and elk ivories. the design is painted with earth pigments. This robe is a #1 Prime with heavy winter wool. Beautiful hide $3000.00 | |
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Elk Robes: Although
Native Americans did not use elk robes with hair on them for wearing
robes many of you have asked us to produce them for you here is one we
just finished. It sold to a gallery in Cave Creek Arizona (Spurcross
Gallery).
The price of our elk robes $495.00--$895.00 depending on how much beadwork and painting you want done. We only use earth pigments and old time bead colors on all our robes. |
This is a reproduction of a Cheyenne Shield (circa 1860). This shield is formed using a method that is over a thousand years old. The hide is heat shrunk over an open hole filled with hot stones. The end result is a shield that is about 1/4 inch thick and hard. This shield also has hand painted eagle feathers, red & blue trade cloth, brain-tan leather, hawk bells and is painted with earth pigments which are hand ground minerals. the price on this piece is $500.00 |
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| Oglala Shield: (circa 1890) This is a beautiful example of oglala craftsmanship. This shield is formed using a method that is over a thousand years old. The hide is heat shrunk over an open hole filled with hot stones. The end result is a shield that is about 1/4 inch thick and hard. This shield consists of earth pigments, hand painted eagle and hawk feathers. The hawk feather has a quilled strip down the center of the feather, sweetgrass and brain-tan leather.$535.00 | |
Sioux Shield: This is a shield I patterned after a shield labled soiux (circa 1900). It consist of heat shrunk hide, earth pigments, turkey tail feathers, horse hair and brain-tanned leather. $500.00 |
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| Buffalo Shield with Brain-Tan Shield cover: This is the nicest shield we have it consists of heat shrunk buffalo raw-hide, with a brain-tanned buffalo hide shield cover and earth pigments. $1600.00 | |
Pipe Ax with beaded flag The Pipe Ax is antiqued to give it an authentic look. The flag consists of a lazy stitch bead work design. This piece is $495.00 |
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Pictured here is a reproduction of a Blackfeet Parfleche Knife Sheath (circa 1850). Materials are buffalo rawhide, earth pigments, trade cloth and brain-tan hide. We do many different designs from many different tribes. $100.00 (without knife) $125.00 (with knife). We also make Parfleche Envelopes, $140.00--$600.00 depending on size and design. Cylinders also known as Bonnet or Medicine cases Large Apx 18"L.( $225.00 with 18" fringe $275.00) Small Apx. 12" L. $200.00 with fringe $ 235.00. Flat cases Small Apx. 5" X 6" $140.00 Medium Apx. 10" X 12" $175.00 If you have a picture of any kind of parfleche we can reproduce it . |
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Cheyenne Parfleche (circa
1850) This is an envelope parfleche it is called this because of the way it's
folded. Parfleches were used to store many items from food to feathers.
This parfleche is made out of Buffalo raw-hide, earth pigments and
brain-tan leather. $550.00 for one or $1000.00 For a pair. |
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Crow "lance case" (circa 1880) Lance cases were actually effigy's of lance's they were never intended to hold anything. Women customarily carried their husbands armaments and shield during reservation period parades in which the Crow emulated the moving camp. The heavily decorated lance case is part of an equestrian woman's regalia, mounted on the saddle so that the triangular head angles back behind the rider. $795.00 |
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| Buffalo Rawhide Parfleche Boxes: These are the most beautiful storage containers imaginable. Used by the native americans, these were kept in their tipis to store items. Creatively made shaping rawhide into boxes with lids flexible enough to open and close yet sturdy enough to hold almost anything Beautifully painted in a variety of designs. A splendid finishing touch to just about any house interior Sold in pairs $1400.00 | |
| Blackfeet Rifle Case: Consists of deer sinew sewn brain-tan leather case, with lazystich beadwork. We can custom make for any rifle. $400.00 | |
BUFFALO HIDE
TIPIS are precisely constructed using the techniques of the Plains Indians. The
year 1879 was the last time a buffalo hide tipi was made until Larry
researched and made one in 1976, almost a century later. Generally it
takes 6 mouths to make a lodge of sinew sewn hand tanned bison. It can be
constructed in the style of any plains tribe.
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| War Shirt, Blanket Bead strip, Quilled strips: Shirt is fully beaded. It is painted yellow and green using earth pigments and adorned with quill wrapped human hairlocks. $3800.00. The blanket strip is fully beaded. $1000.00. And of course the quilled strips consist of porcupine quills. | |
Lakota Toy Cradleboard Apx. 20" Long. Cradleboards like this one were made by grandmothers for there granddaughters to teach them how to be good mother's and wife's. It consist of lazy stitch beadwork on muslin, alder wood, deer sinew and brass tacks.$1000.00
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Buffalo Product's:
Brain-tanned buffalo robes have plush winter wool . These are skinned in
the historic Indian method to produce a symetrical shape. The
"square" shape fits nicely on beds, floors, or as a wearing
blanket. The old skinning technique utilized more of the hide than today's
method, resulting in a greater size.
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| Earth-Color Painted Bison Robe: with Beaded Bow/Quiver Case: all brain-tanned and sinew-sewn: Robe $3600.00. Case $700.00 | |
| Arrows:
Our arrows have sinew-wrapped fletchings and metal points. These museum-quality arrows have flared nochs and incised blood grooves. Each arrow is $55.00 or a set of four with matching earth-colored crest is $200.00 |
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| Fully Quilled Pipe Bag: $3000.00 Fully Beaded Pipe Bag: $1600.00 | |
| Painted Willow Backrest with tripod poles $550.00, sinew-sewn Pipe Bag with old size 12 and 13 beads $1600.00, Catlinite Pipe $300.00, Ash Bow $365.00 Parfleche $700.00 and Brain-Tanned Bison Robe $1400.00 are in the background. |
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