THIS REPLICA IS BASED ON BLACKBIRD'S WAR SHIRT WITH A LARGER MEDALLION. This is the back of the shirt. The front is similar with a green medallion.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s set a new record (for the original shirt) in May 2011 for a piece of American Indian Art at auction when an Oglala Sioux Beaded and Fringed Hide War Shirt which once belonged to the famous and celebrated Sioux Chief, Black Bird sold to an anonymous buyer for $2,658,500 (est. $250/350,000).   http://nativeartstrading.com/

Oglala Sioux

Native American War Shirt

REPLICA SIOUX SCALP SHIRT

This is the front of the shirt

culture: SIOUX, LAKOTA, OGLALA

deer skin, human hair locks, glass beads, wool cloth, clay pigment paints, etc.

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NATIVE AMERICAN PIPE BAG WITH PIPESTONE PIPE

SIOUX PIPE BAG WITH PIPE

Oglala Sioux (museum replica) photographed with pipe

 (different design on front and back) 

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Native American Pipe Bags & Pouches - Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Crow, etc.,

Native Americans made an incredible variety of  pouches for every conceivable purpose.  Beaded and or quilled pipe bags were some of the finest items made.  Their tobacco was sometimes carried at the bottom of the bag.  The pipe bowl was separated when it was carried and a thong drawstring tie was attached to the top of all pipe bags to secure the contents of the bag.

NATIVE AMERICAN BOW CASE & QUIVER

Plains Indian Bow Case and Quiver

PLAINS INDIAN

Replica of an old Plains bow case and quiver 

brain tanned deer skin, glass beads, earth pigment paints

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WEAPONS OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN

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NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN CLOTHING & REGALIA

Clothing, Regalia & Beadwork of the Plains Indfan, Plateau, Basin, Woodlands and Southwest Indian - Sioux, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Ojibwe, Chippewa, Apache, Nez Perce', Ute, etc.,

Headdresses / War Bonnets, War Shirts, Dresses, Moccasins, Leggings, Plains Jackets / Coats, Weapons, belts, hat bands, Shields, Tomahawks, Hair Ornaments, etc.

Traditional custom clothing, regalia and Beadwork (Beaded Clothing and Regalia) of the Sioux, Apache, Arapaho, Nez Perce', Ojibwe', Ojibwa', Cheyenne, Chippewa, 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.

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PLAINS INDIAN TRAILER HEADDRESS

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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