Native American Beadwork

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

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...

Nez Perce youth dress with ram's tail center, beaded cape same both sides with rams tail design , fringed arms, sides and bottom, fringe drops with...

Cheyenne large beaded saddle bags. The piece shows thick Native tanned hide with a folded over section allowing for an internal bag on the inside o...

Crow, possibly Blackfeet, made frontal of harness leather, seeds, brass and glass beads. 12" x 14"PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - C...

Sioux beaded teepee bag with beaded front sides and top having tin cones ending in red horsehair. Brain tanned buckskin. 12" x 19"PERIOD: Late 19th...

Sioux saddle throw of brain tanned elk hide, red stroud with hourglass design beading. 48" x 12"; Beaded Panel 9 1/2" x 10"; Fringe 32"PERIOD: Earl...

Sioux beaded pipe bag having large beaded panels both sides on brain tanned buffalo with quilled slats on parfleche. Original fringe. Sinew sewn.PE...

19th Century beaded and quilled bowcase, quiver, bow and arrow set from the Northern Cheyenne ex-Forest Fenn collection. The piece exhibits Indian ...

19th Century Arapaho made strike a light pouch beaded on harness leather with tin cone dangles, bottom and flap, and 7" twisted fringe ending in a ...

1858 Presentation Beadwork on Red Stroud. Beaded by the Crow. Written on the piece, "This was wrought by the Wetunkiska Asiow Indian Mission residi...

Plateau gauntlets with beaded red bulls. The United States Cavalry riders wore gauntlet gloves as part of their uniform, introducing the clothing s...