Hopi, Painted, Hide Belt

This is a rare find: a Hopi hide belt painted like the woven belts. I have never seen this in all my collecting years. The hide is soft and supple, brain tanned, then painted in red, green, olive and black.

Southern Plains Lance, 19th Century

This is a great lance in wonderful condition. The haft is made out of sotol wood. Western Apache and other regional groups used the flowering stalks of the sotol plant (Dasylirion wheeleri)—often colloquially misidentified as a cactus or grouped with yucca-like succulents—to construct lightweight lance shafts. This haft is very smooth, yet bumpy in form […]

Painted Cochiti Drum, Circa 1940, 10″ Tall

Here we have the classic Cochiti drum made from hollowed out cottonwood. The hide covers the top and bottom with hide strips criss-crossing the drum to make for all the attachments. The drum is panting in white, yellow and blue in the classic Cochiti fashion. The drum is in excellent condition and makes a great […]

Large, Painted, Cochiti Drum, Circa 1940, 24″ Tall

This is a large and beautifully formed Cochiti drum, 24″ tall. The cottonwood has been hollowed out with hide top and bottom and hide strips criss-crossing the painted surface to connect everything. The drum is painted black, yellow and light blue. The shape of the drum is perfectly tapered from each end towards a wider […]

Pueblo Drum Painted Both Ends, Circa 1930

We believe this to be a Pueblo drum, but it has characteristics that might make it from a different Native group. The base of the drum is metal painted black and covered on both ends with hide laced together with hide strips to link up all the parts. One end is painted with a Native […]

Plains Indian Fully Beaded Doctor’s Bag

This is a great and atypical beaded Plains Indian Doctor’s bag, likely Blackfoot. It is fully beaded on all sides, including the bottom. It’s atypical due to its size (18″ long) and the white beaded background with teepees of unusual shapes and colors. The bag is in very good condition, the insides with no tears […]

Plains Indian (Sioux) Horse Stick, 19th Century

This is a very unique horse stick most likely from the Sioux tribe of the Plains. The well carved horse head, with metal set eyes and hide ears, is spliced onto the wood handle portion. It’s attached with small, steel tacks The handle, as well the horse head, is topped with two layers of commercial […]

Small, Sioux, Beaded Hide Bag

This is the most charming, small, beaded bag. Deep blue make up the background color. Design elements are added with: white, greasy yellow, light blue, red with white hears, and translucent red beads. Besides the hide fringe, there are four bead drops, two from the top corners and two from the bottom corners. The drops […]

Plains Indian Child’s Beaded Hide Robe

This is an early and rare example of a child’s beaded robe. The beauty of this robe comes from its understated simplicity. The isolated beaded strip has much power, sitting alone on a hide only colored with yellow ochre. The tapering at each end of the beaded strip gives it all the more power as […]

Sioux Medicine Horn Cup

The top of the horn cup is wrapped in thick hide (3 3/4″ wide), looking and feeling like buffalo. The hide is fringed at the top with a row of light blue beads, followed by two rows of yellow beads. The design has a geometric layout in white, green deep blue and red with white […]