Native American Beadwork

Self-adornment is important to many Native American tribes. Traditionally, Native Americans decorated garments with porcupine quills, feathers, animal hair and plant-based dyes. With the introduction of European trade, traditional hand drilled beads made from stone, bone and shell were soon replaced with glass beads in red, yellow, blue, and white. The visual enhancement of clothing and horse gear has remained a strong part of Native American culture to this day. Cisco’s collection of antique Native American beadwork includes moccasins, pipe bags, flat bags, bandolier bags, tipi bags, gauntlets, cradle boards, fetishes, martingales and more. Much of the collection is from the Great Plains and Plateau regions and dates to the late 19^th Century, early 20^th Century.

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Nez Perce Bone Tube Breastplate

$7,500

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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...
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Early Nez Perce Pipe Bag

$22,000

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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...
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Sioux Warrior's Badger Claw Choker

$5,500

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Sioux made warriors badger claw choker with original ties. Has been shortened from original length but probably all beads and claws remain. Was tie...
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Coeur d' Alene Tribe Blanket Strip

Current Price $3,000

Original Price $4,000

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Coeur d'Alene Tribe blanket strip, contemporary, but nice, on old blue wool blanket. Strip 56” with 6” rosettes, each having hawk bell drops; two m...
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Cree Pictorial Gauntlets

Current Price $2,000

Original Price $3,500

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Silk embroidery gauntlets with elk herd pictorial. The United States Cavalry riders wore gauntlet gloves as part of their uniform, introducing the ...
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Beaded Gauntlets

$3,500

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

$12,000

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

$12,000

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Sioux blanket strip sewn on buffalo then onto stroud. 3” x 70” with 4 roundels, each having remnants of silk ribbons and hawk bells. Blue stroud ...
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Plateau Saddle Bags

$12,000

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Plateau saddle drape on brain tanned elk with matching beaded panels. Both ends having flaps with ties. Tent canvas lined. 108"L including fringe. ...
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Plateau Beaded Pouch

$2,000

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Coeur d'Alene Tribe made brain tanned paint pouch with red ochre and finely beaded edging.PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Coeur d'Alene...
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Cheyenne Beaded Blanket Strip

$9,000

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Cheyenne beaded blanket strip. Sinew sewn on brain tanned buffalo. A single piece. Backing on blue stroud. Bead strip with open teepee design.PERIO...
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Arapaho Beaded Blanket Strip

$9,000

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19th beaded blanket strip on buffalo, then on old blue stroud with original salvage.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Arapaho, Native Amer...
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Nez Perce Belt Pouch

$4,500

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Nez Perce made belt pouch with geometric design directly on harness leather. Contour beaded. Lined with red flannel. A trunk piece directly off the...
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Sioux Dress

Current Price $6,000

Original Price $12,000

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Sioux dress of doeskin; fully beaded cape; full size; sinew-sewn; ca. 1890's; 45" across, 40" top to bottom.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Great...
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Nez Perce Pouch

$1,500

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Fully beaded Nez Perce made pouch with classic design. Sinew sewn on brain tanned elk hide with hide drops.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Platea...
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Northern Plains Spike Axe

$9,000

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Northern Plains spike axe with tacked shaft, adornment (square) shanks and beaded drop. Drop late 19th Century but original to the piece.PERIOD: Mi...
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Sioux Teepee Bag

Current Price $2,000

Original Price $6,500

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19th Century Sioux teepee bag of brain tanned buffalo with quilled front, beaded sides and top band. Tin cones and horse hair. Shows wear from peri...
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Chief Silver Tongue Sioux Pipe Bag

$5,500

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Sioux made pipe bag with soft brain tanned hide, floral beaded top and runs down each side. Large beaded panel on both sides decorated with multico...
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Beaded Cheyenne Doll

$12,000

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Female beaded Cheyenne doll with heavily beaded yoke both sides and grandmother's hair.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Great Plains - Cheyenne, N...
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Plateau Gauntlets

$4,000

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Plateau gauntlets with faceted beads and floral design both cuff and glove. The United States Cavalry riders wore gauntlet gloves as part of their ...
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Anishinaabe Bandolier Bag

$4,000

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Anishinaabe beaded bandolier bag. Red sewn and beaded with white, pink, red, yellow, translucent yellow, pearl, hunter green, pea green, light blue...
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Sioux Pipe Bag

$10,000

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Extra large Sioux made pipe bag. Large beaded panel beaded with different designs on both sides. Quilled slats and fringe. Sinew sewn on brain tann...
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Sioux Knife Sheath with Bowie

$6,500

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Classic Sioux fully beaded knife sheath with tin cones, a band around sheath and on drop, several having horsehair. Complete with a file made bowie...
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Sioux Patriotic Pictorial Pipe Bag

$15,000

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Sioux made patriotic pictorial beaded pipe bag with large beaded panel having four flags and large crosses on the quilled slats. Brain tanned leath...
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