Native American Beadwork

Nez Perce belt sewn on harness leather with faceted beads. Direct from a Nez Perce family. 40"x 2 1/2"PERIOD: UnknownORIGIN: Plateau - Nez Perce, N...

Mid 19th century Western Apache war shirt of brain tanned mountain lion hide, perforated for ventilation, fringed and painted in earth pigments. Ei...

Plateau beaded pictorial gauntlets with eagle and butterfly. Circa 1910. 7" cuff plus 3" fringe x 12"PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Un...

Large cuff Plateau gauntlets beaded with greasy yellows and floral motif. Circa 1900. Cuffs 9" x 16" plus 3"W fringePERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGI...

Sioux 101 ranch tomahawk on brain tanned hide over wood shaft with beaded tabs and horsehair drop. Used or sold at the 101 Ranch show. 13" plus 5" ...

Sioux stone ball headed club from Pineridge Reservation. Natural or shaped stone may be prehistoric with loom beaded wrapping decoration over rawhi...

Sioux stone war club with double pointed head. Totally beaded with top band having red white hearts ending in tin cones with horse hair. May have o...

Sioux dance stone club ending in two pointed pyramids. Highly polished. Wrapped in smoke tanned hide then beaded.PERIOD: Late 20th Century ORIGIN: ...

Sioux dance beaded stone club with highly polished, double pointed catlinite head and scatter beaded haft.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains ...

Sioux beaded stone club with highly polished, double pointed head and fully beaded haft.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Sioux, Native Am...

Plains stone war club with double pointed pink sandstone head. Haft wrapped in rawhide. Beaded design on head band. May have once been longer.PERIO...

Sioux Chief's beaded saddle blanket. Lazy stitch beadwork is period blue back ground with crosses and geometric patterns in white, black, red and g...

Lakota Sioux moccasins with buffalo hoof motif. Red white heart beads and brain tanned hide with hard soles. Sinew sewn, soft hide. Right moccasins...

Pair of Cheyenne beaded moccasins with buffalo hoof motif. Sinew sewn. Right moccasin has water damage to the sole from in period use, and upper is...

Plateau beaded martingale with geometric design, fringe and bells.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Washington, United StatesSIZE: 38"L x 16 1/4"W

Plateau beaded horse breast strap on red stroud. Thread sewn with curvilinear floral beadwork and colors of pony trader blue, cobalt greens, white,...

Unique blue beaded Sioux saddle blanket with canvas center. Includes a photo from the cover page of Appaloosa News, showing this blanket 8/1996. 73...

Geronimo's Apache moccasins collected at Firt Sill, OK in 1898. Hard soled, two blinds of white, red, blue and black on toes with side fringe. Uppe...

Early Plateau dress with center rams tail triangle both front and back, rams hide fringe on shoulders, brain tanned doe skin, beaded cape, and long...

Native beaded holster having lazy stitch beading decoration having greasy yellow plus white, green and cobalt on both sides with short fringe. Ex. ...

Creed beaded moccasins with geometric design on blue ground.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Northeast - Cree, Native AmericanSIZE: 3 3/4"H x 4 1/4"W...

Exceptional Crow saddle blanket with bead strips and drops, sinew sewn on brain tanned hide, edged in muslin and then sewn on a large piece of buff...

One strand of restrung shells from Calaveras County, California. We think Mono, Modoc or Yokut. Beads are shell and bone. All were found and restru...

Early decorative Eskimo beaded ball of seal skin with bead designs and white fur tufts. 6"D not including fur.PERIOD: ContemporaryORIGIN: Arctic - ...

Vintage Great Lakes beaded bandolier bag with rectangular pocket and wide strap worked with vining foliate motifs. Larger than most. Inside the bag...

Circa 1840 Western Apache war shirt of brain tanned mountain lion hide, perforated for ventilation, fringed and painted in earth pigments. Eight po...

Sioux beaded moccasins with parfleche soles. Beaded buffalo hoof motif having geometric and cross designs in green, white, red, blue and yellow. Si...

Cheyenne beaded war shirt with brain tanned deer hide. Circa 1880's. Brain tanned hide having traces of green paint in poncho style, with panels of...

1870s - Indian War Period bead strips. Shirt is a revival piece, with the bead strips moved over from an older war shirt; human hair locks with qui...

Sioux warrior's shirt with bead strips and fringe with old earth paint. Purchased as a Ghost Dance shirt, but may be earlier.PERIOD: 18th CenturyOR...

Sioux child's vest beaded with American flags, teepees and stars. Sinew sewn on brain tanned fawn or antelope skin. Circa 1885-1895. 10"W x 9 1/2"H...

Sioux child's hightop moccasins with matching leggings in buffalo hoof motif. Metal beads on leggings. Sinew sewn, brain tanned deer skin and parfl...

Beaded Herman Heiser batwing chaps with American flags. Thread sewn on hide and applied to leather chaps. Vibrantly decorated with horse tracks, mo...

Sioux fully beaded moccasins with buffalo hoof design. Cotton cloth uppers with green trade cloth banding. Bronze faceted beads.PERIOD: Late 19th C...

Sicangu Lakota (Brule' Sioux) beaded saddle cover with fringe of brain tanned buffalo. Fully beaded with teepees, American flags, and geometric dev...