Native American Beadwork

Primitive grizzly bear necklace having 15 claws with one large front claw in center interspersed with early trade beads strung on a hemp strand. Mo...

Yakama made beaded flat bag with butterflies, canary and flowers on white background.PERIOD: Mid 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Unknown, Native Amer...

Plateau flat bag with bugling elk in mountain meadowPERIOD: Mid 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Unknown, Native AmericanSIZE: 11" x 12"

Plateau flat bag with white stylized floral design surrounded by scatter beads on blue background with worn black stroud edging.PERIOD: Late 19th C...

Yakama pictorial flat bag with birds, flowers and butterflies. Ex Likkel.PERIOD: Mid 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Yakama, Native AmericanSIZE: 1...

Pictorial flat bag featuring a strawberry plant on a white field. Log notes purchased Mrs. Julin Smith, Dalles, Oregon Summer 1963. 11" x 9"PERIOD:...

Plateau flat bag. Floral with a heart in each corner. Brain tanned deer skin back.PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Unknown, Native Ameri...

Yakama flat bag with floral design and yellow background. Dated Feb 12, 1910. Commercially tanned fringe and backing.PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIG...

Blackfeet bead strip. Sewn on tent canvas with geometric design. Not sure if belt or blanket strip.PERIOD: Late 20th Century ORIGIN: Great Plains -...

Southern Plains decorated pony bow. Buffalo hide, beads and red ochre. Original string of twisted horse hair. 36"LPERIOD: Mid 19th CenturyORIGIN: S...

Extra large Yakama gauntlets of brain/smoke tanned elk with oversized cuffs. Floral design cuff and glove. The United States Cavalry riders wore ga...

Nez Perze pictorial gauntlets with eagle holding arrow on blue background on cuff and floral design on glove. Brain tanned deer skin. Flour sack li...

Plateau gauntlets of brain/smoke tanned buck skin, floral design cuff and glove, some faceted beads. The United States Cavalry riders wore gauntlet...

Plateau gauntlets with fully beaded cuff having floral design and floral on glove. Brain/smoke tanned buck skin. Rare black faceted background. The...

Crow beaded and tacked belt sewn directly on harness leather. 39"L x 1 3/4"WPERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Crow, Native AmericanSI...

Nez Perce/Plateau gauntlets. Wear on hands from use, but beadwork intact. The United States Cavalry riders wore gauntlet gloves as part of their un...

Plateau gauntlets with floral design. The United States Cavalry riders wore gauntlet gloves as part of their uniform, introducing the clothing styl...

Nez Perce gauntlets with fully beaded white panels having a center rose, smoke tanned elk hide. Trunk piece, never worn. The United States Cavalry ...

Eastern Society made beaver bag. Zig-Zag beads on tail represent rippling water. Third or fourth degree, much rarer than the Mink or Otter bags.PER...

Highly visual Sioux made pipe bag. Identical beading both sides. Parfleche quilled slats and brain tanned fringe. Beaded upper sides and rim. Quill...

Fully beaded Sioux patriotic moccasins. Greasy white background with eagles and US banners. Parfleche soles. "0 3 5" written in greasy yellows on g...

Hidatsa Sioux made work bag from Fort Berthold, North Dakota. Properly referred to as a woman's work bag that was used for holding sewing materials...

Arapaho made pouch of brain tanned deer skin with cross motif and border of diagonally stitched diamonds. 7"L x 8"W x 1/2"DPERIOD: Early 20th Centu...

Fully beaded Sioux baby moccasins with red white hearts, sinew sewn on brain tanned with parfleche soles.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Great Pl...

Blackfeet dress of red stroud. Estimated 1920s. Beads on panels both sides carried over from 19th Century. 40" x 40"PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGI...

Blackfeet beaded blanket strip, beaded on canvas with thin lines of red cloth outlining the various panels, displaying three cruciform roundels wit...

Blackfeet Loop Necklace. Harness leather, brass tacks and brain tanned ties and full beaded rounds in white having center decoration increasing in ...

Yakama made beaded flat bag with brass background and green stroud edging.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Plateau - Yakama, Native AmericanSIZE: ...

Yakama flat bag with folky deer with red stroud backing.PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Yakama, Native AmericanSIZE: 6" x 7" with 3" ...

Yakama flat bag with elk in the woods on white background.PERIOD: Mid 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Nez Perce, Native AmericanSIZE: 12" x 14"

Rare, smaller sized horse Martingale with interesting bead designs on canvas with wool trim and buckskin ties. Log entry notes purchased Toppenish,...