Plains Indian Shield Cover and Shield

Inspired by Rain in the Face's (Lakota Sioux) shield cover (left), Hard buffalo rawhide shield based on a Hidatsa museum shield (right)

Sioux Shield Cover (Plains Indian Shields)

Here is a shield cover (made of braintanned buffalo ) based on Rain in the Face's shield, but we have changed the Thunderbird / Eagle as per the clients request and added a few items that the client also wanted on the shield.

PAINTED BUFFALO HIDE & SKINS

PAINTED BUFFALO ROBES & HIDES

buffalo & elk robes / deer skin hides / painted tee pee liners

Native North American Painted Buffalo Hides

Hide painting is a traditional Plains Indian art form featuring geometric, battle and hunting exploits, "winter counts", and designs inspired by visions and dreams. Although the painted deer skin robe below is of a more Southwestern origin and is also contemporary, we paint buffalo robes and other hides utilizing traditional imagery and designs - geometric's designs (the "Feathered Sun"), pictographs (buffalo hunts and battle scenes), "winter counts", as seen in museums or as an individual art piece as example below.

When painting traditional buffalo robes and hides we use earth pigment paints. On some occasions, we use acrylic paints as seen above.

NATIVE ARTS TRADING