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 rabbit skin, otter, other fur or feathers - and 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.
This replica was inspired by Iron Tail's trailer war bonnet
Iron Tail (or Cinte Muzza) an Oglala Sioux - fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He also performed with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show during the 1890's and with the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West show from 1913 to 1916. He died of pneumonia on May 28, 1916 while traveling to his homeland, the hills of South Dakota. Iron Tail was one of three models for the Indian Head nickel
This headdress also featured in the film "Hyde Park on Hudson" (2012) starring Bill Murray. The headdress was worn by Jonathan Brewer playing the part of Ish-ti-opi.
caps - (buckskin) deer, elk, etc.
caps covered with otter, buffalo, rabbit, feathers, etc
glass beads
ermine, calico, leather drops
hand wrapped feathers
hand painted feathers
coup dots made from gypsum, fur, buckskin, etc
calico
trade cloth
clay paints
headdresses can be aged to look old
horse hair
ermine / weasel
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