Native American Beadwork

Cheyenne fully beaded hide cradle with boards. Sinew sewn and beaded using colors of white, cobalt, medium blue, pea green, greasy yellow and red w...

Sioux saddle blanket. Highly geometric design on white background with fringe and hawk bells. Tent canvas center. 30" x 62" plus 8" fringe both end...

Sioux beaded moccasins. Sinew and thread sewn. Brain tanned hide with canvas flaps having small squares of beaded designs on top in white, green, c...

Sioux beaded saddle blanket. Sinew sewn, wide beaded panels in colors of pea green, red white hearts, dark blue, greasy yellow and white. Center of...

Plateau beaded crockery mug. Floral and butterfly motif. Thread sewn over canvas. Blue background with scatterbeads on bottom. 7"H x 4"D plus handl...

Northern Plains made paint bag of brain and smoke tanned deer hide. Collected with arrowheads as shown. Sinew sewn. This taken on account by a dent...

Northern Plains bone tube breastplate. Three section of bone pipe tubes accented on each end with brass trade beads separated by harness leather wi...

Metis (possibly Red River Cree, Plains, Ojibwe or Sioux) 19th Century hide half leggings. Used to protect the lower leg. Used on the frontier. Brai...

Arapaho made large panel, tobacco bag with old collection tag "tobacco bag" white seal #450. Brain tanned buffalo calf. All original, remains soft ...

Horse pictoral flat bag with flowers, pictorial flat bag.PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Unknown, Native AmericanSIZE: 8" x 10"

Apache fully beaded quirt. Six colors in chevron designs with parfleche flapper starting with red stroud. Fully beaded wrist wrap. Handle beaded ov...

Classic Sioux blanket strip with blue and red on white background. Sinew sewn on buffalo. Extra large as most were not this big. 60" with 3" rosett...

Sioux fully beaded drum beater with alternating bands of dark blue, goldenrod, white, and scatter beaded, two tin cones with red yarn tassels on to...

Shoshone/Ute blanket strip on buffalo hide. 58" with 7" rosettes 5" wide strip.PERIOD: Mid 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Basin - Shoshone, Native Ameri...

Yankton Sioux made pipe bag. Beaded panel side and top edging. Greasy yellows, red white hearts, narrow quilled slats. Long narrow, early bag. Bag ...

Sioux made pictorial two sided pipe bag. One side with geometrics the other with two horse heads and four flags. Large beaded panel, quilled slats,...

Sioux doll with grandmother's hair. 9 1/2"H. Brain tanned deer skin.PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Sioux, Native AmericanSIZE: ...

Potawatomi loom beaded bandolier bag. Thread sewn and designed using a sorted solid and translucent glass beads, repeating floral - inspired geomet...

Beautiful brain tanned elk hide dress. The yoke with underlying rows of larger red, white, green and blue beads. Shoulder stirps lazy stitched with...

Kaul Kaul Tomi - Ram's Tail Nez Perce brain tanned dress, first quarter 20th century, beaded yoke both sides, remnants of red ochre on shoulder top...

Early Sioux made pipe bag with rare blue beading. Early small size. Beaded panels different both sides. Beaded edging and top rim. Quilled slats ar...

Crow doll with beaded red stroud dress showing selvedge. Ex Museum of the Yellowstone.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Great Plains - Crow, Nativ...

Extra-long Blackfeet gauntlets with crossed arrows over heart design on brain tanned deer skin. Collected by Charles Graves, Indian agent, in 1930s...

Sioux made pipe bag with large beaded panel and long fringe. Beaded both sides with same geometric design. Top rim has remnants of agreen stroud bo...

Sioux/Arapaho leggings with beaded tabs having small tin cones and fringe on brain tanned doe skin. Metallic beads in center of crosses, sinew sewn...

Large Sioux beaded pipe bag. Sinew sewn with different beaded geometric designs both sides on white background. Complemented by bright colored quil...

Plateau beaded flat bag with floral design. 15" x 13"PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Unknown, Native AmericanSIZE: 15" x 13"

Two sided Plateau beaded flat bag. Both sides floral, one white background, verso blue. Beaded on leather with old trade cloth liner.PERIOD: Early ...

Nez Perce Plateau woman's rawhide saddle covered with muslin seat cover having white beaded drop with two arrows. Upper horns covered with brain ta...

Exceptional Nez Perce gauntlets with geometric design, beads on back of hands and long fringe. Blue background, contour beaded. The United States ...

Large Nez Perce flat bag on brain tanned elk hide with geometric design.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Nez Perce, Native AmericanSIZE: ...

Nez Perce contour beaded flat bag with floral design on blue background. Red flannel back, cloth lined.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - N...

Nez Perce belt. Yellow beaded with pink and red accents on harness leather. Yellow unusual. 40"L x 2"WPERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - N...

Sioux made pipe bag with different beaded panels both sides. One side having boxes and crosses, the other salt and pepper with crosses. Long quille...

Sioux made pipe with similar geometric beaded panels both sides having metallic beads. Quilled edging and top having quilled drops with tin cones a...

Sioux child's moccasins with buffalo hoof design, faceted beads, parfleche soles and commercially tanned hide.PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGIN: Gre...

Stony Cree men's moccasins.PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGIN: Northeast - Cree, Native AmericanSIZE: 10 1/2"

Nez Perce beaded flat bag with flowering rose and bud on blue background. Red silk ribbons for handles. Direct from a Nez Perce family. 8" x 10"PER...

Nez Perce flat bag with flower design on blue background. Direct from a Nez Perce family. 12" x 13"PERIOD: First Half 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau -...

Nez Perce contour beaded flat bag on brain tanned hide with flour sack lining. A double drop with early beads and cowry shells. A pictorial of a do...

Classic Nez Perce bone tube breastplate with bone tubes, harness leather, brain tanned fringe and a center of white glass beads around an early bra...

Early Nez Perce made pipe bag of classic design on brain tanned buffalo. This piece was said to have been on Chief Joseph's march to Canada. Carrie...

Sioux made warriors badger claw choker with original ties. Has been shortened from original length but probably all beads and claws remain. Was tie...

Plateau (Possibly Blackfeet) beaded gauntlets of brain tanned buck skin. The United States Cavalry riders wore gauntlet gloves as part of their uni...

Heavily beaded yoke both sides with early tribal deer tail design. 48"L x 42"WPERIOD: Last Half 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Blackfeet, Nativ...

Saddle blanket 48" x 58" with 10" wide bead strip having mirrors and bells. Circa 1890s through Almeta Stevens from her mother. Came direct from th...