This is beautiful and unusual parfleche container. The single piece of hide is folded in half and stitched up the long side with hide over a red cloth, likely cotton. Much of this cloth is gone, as is the hide stitching, but enough remains to make it clear how this edge was sealed. The top […]
This is a beautiful Crow teepee beaded bag. The simple, horizontal banding makes for a very aesthetically pleasing and sublime look. There are 7 horizontal, beaded bands consisting of deep blue, light blue, green, red with white hearts and white. The closing part of the lid is decorated with the same beads except no light […]
This is a large and exceptional Plains beaded, buffalo hide umbilical fetish. We think it’s a turtle, but it might be a lizard based on its elongated shape. Dirty yellow alternates with deep blue, green, white and red with white heart beads. Tin cones define the feet. There is a glass beaded element on the […]
The is a very nice early reservation period knife sheath. It is beaded only on one side and has two hide drops at the tip partially wrapped in quill work with a single tin cone on one end. The beads are white, dark blue and deep red with white hearts. There was a row, place […]
