This pipe bag is likely Arapahoe and dates to around 1870 with very small beads. The hide appears to be young buffalo or elk. The workmanship is excellent as are the designs and strong use of color. The top has four, small tabs and the whole rim is beaded as are the edges of the […]
This is a beautiful and interesting tee pee bag, The designs on the front are unusual for these types of bags. One central, diamond is attached at all corners to elongated triangles, all with multiple colors. Two of the triangles are outlined in white beads, and two are outlined with red with white heart beads. […]
This is a rare and beautiful example of a Comanche or Kiowa child’s bow with three arrows. The wood is Osage Orange, or Bodark, and has the great color and patina of warm honey. The feathers on the arrows are turkey. Use is evident in the darker color towards the center where the hands would […]
This is wonderful and early Ute beaded tail bag. The top 4 3/4″ is a bag, perhaps for fire lighting tools. The bottom 6 3/4″ is a decorative tail coming to a point. The front side is fully beaded with white, light blue, dark blue, pony bead blue, yellow and red with white hearts. The […]
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 […]
