Sunday, June 3, 2012

Native American Beadwork - Crow Martingale



HORSE REGALIA

Horse Regalia of the North American Indian (Plains, Prairies, Basin, Southwest and Plateau)

Nez Perce', Crow, Shoshone, Salish, Cayuse, Apache, etc.


All of our horse regalia is custom made to order. We make martingales, head ornaments, saddle bags, beaded bridles and beaded saddle blankets, etc. We can send you examples of horse regalia that we can replicate for you.
We would also be very happy to telephone you to discuss - if you provide your telephone number. Also if you would like us to send you photograph examples of horse regalia from museums that we can replicate - we would be happy to do so. Please let us know what you are interested in.

NATIVE ARTS TRADING

Native American (Plains Indian) Dance Sticks

THUNDERBIRD DANCE STICK

Native American Dance Sticks


MARKING STICKS, DANCE STICKS, ETC., OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN (PLAINS INDIAN)


MARKING STICK / DANCE STICK
trade cloth, calico, antler, old trade beads, clay paints, deer skin, glass beads, buffalo fur, wood, sinew, hide glue
The beadwork on this marking stick is based on an old Nez Perce dance stick



Sioux, Apache, Arapaho, Nez Perce', Cheyenne, Chippewa, Plains Cree, Cherokee, Crow, Blackfeet, Blackfoot, Shoshone, Kiowa, Osage, Ute, Shawnee, Chippewa, Comanche, Gros Ventre, Omahas, Mandan, Osage, Flatheads, Hidatsa, Assiniboine, Sauk, Fox, Iroquois, Wichita, Plateau & Basin, Southwest, Southern & Northern Plains & Woodlands Indian, etc.

Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux Single Trailer Headdress



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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Blackfeet Buffalo Fur / Buffalo Horn Headdress



OLD BUFFALO BULL HEADDRESS REPLICA - BLACKFEET

The original headdress is in the Denver Art Museum.
Buffalo fur, horns, trade cloth, seed beads, hawk bells, human hair, sinew, shell, beads, hackles and feather fluffs, deer skin, etc
made for a client in Chicago


NATIVE ARTS TRADING

(PLAINS INDIAN & OTHER TRIBAL HEADDRESSES) SINGLE, DOUBLE TRAILER HEADDRESS, SPLIT HORN, DOG SOLDIER, PORKY ROACHES, MEDICINE MAN, HAIR ORNAMENTS, BUFFALO FUR HEADDRESSES

Apache headdress / War Cap / Medicine Cap


This Medicine Cap was made for a Lipan Apache

We will never replicate this particular cap with this symbology again. We will make another cap with different symology, but it will not be the same as this one. This cap is copyrighted© Native Arts Trading Limited








Native American Headdress

DOUBLE TRAILER HEADDRESS

REPLICA OF Catalogue No. E357469 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE custom made for a collector in the States 

(PLAINS INDIAN & OTHER TRIBAL HEADDRESSES) SINGLE, DOUBLE TRAILER HEADDRESS, SPLIT HORN, DOG SOLDIER, PORKY ROACHES, MEDICINE MAN, HAIR ORNAMENTS, BUFFALO FUR HEADDRESSES, ETC.