Different views of a replica single trailer headdress inspired by Hunkpapa Lakota headdress, North Dakota, worn by Chief Rain in the Face, 1884-85
ABOUT OUR HEADRESSES / WAR BONNETS
All of our headdresses are hand beaded (lazy stitch or applique’ brow bands in traditional colors - not loom beaded.All feathers are hand wrapped and hand painted with trade cloth/flannel or other material. The preferred color in the old days was red or yellow Feathers are decorated with horse hair, breath feathers, gypsum, buckskin/elk or fur on tips of feathers. We also utilize clay paints. Each headdress is antiqued to look old (if required).Deer skin or Elk skullcaps are covered with buffalo and otter fur, other furs and feathers (applied in various ways) Headdresses are adorned with buffalo hair, ribbon, ermine, quill work, braided leather, bead work, feather side drops, aged tin cones, hawk bells and dance bells, etc.
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