Native American Beadwork

Lakota Sioux beaded baby moccasins with blue striping, folk tanned antelope and parfleche soles. Red white hearts with banded design.PERIOD: Late 1...

Cheyenne beaded baby moccasins. Blue beaded soles.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Cheyenne, Native AmericanSIZE: 5"

Assiniboine beaded hide shirt. Thread and sinew-sewn, softly-tanned hide; beaded strips along arms, chest, and bib use colors of light blue, red wh...

Plateau gauntlets with fully beaded cuff. Brain tanned elk. Partially faceted beads. Shows use but no damage.PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plat...

Sioux pictorial beaded pipe bag with elk stag one side and geometric on reverse and original fringe.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains -...

Arapaho beaded baby moccasins. Red white heart, greasy yellows and white banding. Soft soles.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Arapah...

Northern Plains club with fully beaded haft and massive stone head.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Northern Plains, Native AmericanSIZE:...

Northern Plains beaded knife sheath with tin cone drops, greasy yellows and long beaded drop ending in tin cones. Includes original knife.PERIOD: 1...

Northern Plains stone ball club with fully beaded haft ending with drops with tin cones and horse hair dangles. Beaded haft of blue with red white ...

This is an exceptional otter pelt bag made from an entire otter - the neck is slit as the main opening for the bag with a cowrie shell drawstring -...

Plateau beaded moccasins with checkerboard pattern.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Unknown, Native AmericanSIZE: 9 1/2" x 3 1/2" Each

19th Century beaded Ojibwe bandolier bag with pocket. A few missing beads on panel not distracting.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Northeast - Ojibwe, ...

Sioux beaded moccasins with metallic beads on brain tanned deer skin with feather design, parfleche soles, sinew sewn.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIG...

Sioux beaded hair drop. Loom beaded multi-color diamonds on white background sewn onto a red linen flannel and at base attached to a section of hid...

Sioux strike a light pouch. Sinew sewn and beaded on harness leather with tin cone drops.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Sioux, Nat...

Nez Perce beaded belt pouch. Many faceted beads with stylized floral design. Brain and smoked tanned hide.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Nez...

Loom beaded pouch. Came with a Native American collection and could be Eastern Potawatomi or Menominee. Also possible a flapper piece. Mint conditi...

Blackfeet awl case banded in blue and white with drops ending in tin cones and horse hair as well as top. Old tag "Needle Used in Sowing Buck Skins...

Fully beaded Blackfeet headstall. This one for decoration on a well trained horse. Without bit, reins or hackamore where rider was guiding horse wi...

Ojibwe knife sheath with one side fully beaded with overall floral motif on yellow background.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Northeast - Ojibwe, Nativ...

Matched pair fully beaded lizard fetishes. Geometric designs on opalescent background with brown edge beading. Double tin cones on feet and tail. 7...

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

Northern Plains beaded possible bag. Sinew sewn and beaded on softly tanned hide using colors of red white heart, pea green, greasy yellow, royal b...

Blackfeet moccasins with classic beadwork, smoke from the teepee, classic design and parfleche soles.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Great Plains...

19th Century Northern Plains child's cape.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Blackfeet, Native AmericanSIZE: 30" x 9" plus 5" drops

19th Century beaded Assiniboine hide beaded moccasins with rare triple bifurcated tongue. The set exhibits Indian tanned hide with original 19th Ce...

Nez Perce saddle drape with beadwork on brain tanned elk. Directly off the reservation.PERIOD: Mid 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Nez Perce, Native...

19th Century Lakota Sioux fully beaded child's bonnet. Sinew sewn with cotton calico (flour sack) lining. Made for own use. Very few made, and fewe...

A Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree) beaded pad saddle. The hourglass-outline seat of hide construction, with floral beadwork at the corners above pictorial b...

Sioux blanket strip. Sinew sewn with four rosettes and hide back. Still has smoke from the teepee.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - S...

Nez Perce pictorial flat bag with elk outlined in yellow surrounded by contour scatter beads. Blue stroud back. Inside noted "1917 Presented to Flo...

Sioux dentalia shell choker with blue and brass beads, harness leather spacing and brain tanned thongs.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - S...

Sioux boy's dentalia shell breastplate with brass trade beads. A rare piece.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Sioux, Native AmericanSIZE: ...

Nez Perce beaded gauntlets with floral motif and fringe on smoke tanned hide. Found in a basement trunk in Lewiston.PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGI...

Sioux cradle cover with geometric designs on white with four American flags on the top.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Sioux, Nativ...

Iroquois beaded bag with double sided floral beading.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Northeast - Iroquois, Native AmericanSIZE: 6 1/4"L x 6"W

Northern Plains blue wool leggings with bead strips and cowrie shells. Sinew sewn. Beaded hide strips decorated using colors of light blue, cobalt,...

Crow bandolier style bow case and quiver. Beaded on trade cloth with cotton, and beaver and otter hide, tassels, red wool trimmed and white pony be...

Sioux teepee bag with fully beaded front, top, edges, tin cones ending in horsehair with two quilled drops having tin cones ending in feather fluff...

Sioux saddle throw quilled with block panels, beaded and fringed edge, quilled parfleche drops ending in hawk bells and long fringe. Brain tanned e...

Sioux dress with heavily beaded yoke. Both sides the same. Heavy fringe around yoke and bottom. Bottom having beadwork band with horse tracks.PERIO...

Sioux split horn bonnet with buffalo hide liner. Brain tanned buffalo skull cap. Long dangling ermine tails, tips beaded with greasy yellows and re...

Nez Perce child's beaded hide cradleboard. Thread sewn, softly tanned hide, stylized poppies, beaded using colors of dark, medium and light blue, p...

Plateau patriotic beaded gauntlets with horse head, American flag and red, white and blue star on smoke tanned hide with flower sack lining. Large ...

Sauk and Fox style bear claw necklace. River otter skin, wrapped with beads, 15 old white claws – second time around. 36” overall length. Decorator...