Plateau Gauntlets
Large cuff Plateau gauntlets beaded with greasy yellows and floral motif. Circa 1900. Cuffs 9" x 16" plus 3"W fringePERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGI...
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Self-adornment is important to many Native American tribes. Traditionally, garments were decorated 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 American Indian 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 19th Century, early 20th Century.
Large cuff Plateau gauntlets beaded with greasy yellows and floral motif. Circa 1900. Cuffs 9" x 16" plus 3"W fringePERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGI...
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Cheyenne River Reservation knife and sheath. Circa 1870's. From the Cheyenne River Reservation. The top of the knife case having quilled cuff from ...
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Sioux 101 ranch tomahawk on brain tanned hide over wood shaft with beaded tabs and horsehair drop. Used or sold at the 101 Ranch show. 13" plus 5" ...
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Sioux stone ball headed club from Pineridge Reservation. Natural or shaped stone may be prehistoric with loom beaded wrapping decoration over rawhi...
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Sioux dance beaded stone club with highly polished, double pointed catlinite head and scatter beaded haft.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains ...
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Sioux beaded stone club with highly polished, double pointed head and fully beaded haft.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Sioux, Native Am...
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Plains stone war club with double pointed pink sandstone head. Haft wrapped in rawhide. Beaded design on head band. May have once been longer.PERIO...
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Sioux Chief's beaded saddle blanket. Lazy stitch beadwork is period blue back ground with crosses and geometric patterns in white, black, red and g...
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Lakota Sioux moccasins with buffalo hoof motif. Red white heart beads and brain tanned hide with hard soles. Sinew sewn, soft hide. Right moccasins...
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Pair of Cheyenne beaded moccasins with buffalo hoof motif. Sinew sewn. Right moccasin has water damage to the sole from in period use, and upper is...
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Plateau beaded martingale with geometric design, fringe and bells.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Washington, United StatesSIZE: 38"L x 16 1/4"W
Plateau beaded horse breast strap on red stroud. Thread sewn with curvilinear floral beadwork and colors of pony trader blue, cobalt greens, white,...
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Unique blue beaded Sioux saddle blanket with canvas center. Includes a photo from the cover page of Appaloosa News, showing this blanket 8/1996. 73...
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Early Plateau dress with center rams tail triangle both front and back, rams hide fringe on shoulders, brain tanned doe skin, beaded cape, and long...
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Native beaded holster having lazy stitch beading decoration having greasy yellow plus white, green and cobalt on both sides with short fringe. Ex. ...
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Creed beaded moccasins with geometric design on blue ground. 3 3/4"H x 4 1/4"W x 11"LPERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Eastern Woodlands - Cree, Native ...
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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...
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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...
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Early decorative Eskimo beaded ball of seal skin with bead designs and white fur tufts. 6"D not including fur.PERIOD: ContemporaryORIGIN: Arctic - ...
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Vintage Great Lakes beaded bandolier bag with rectangular pocket and wide strap worked with vining foliate motifs. Larger than most. Inside the bag...
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Sioux beaded moccasins with parfleche soles. Beaded buffalo hoof motif having geometric and cross designs in green, white, red, blue and yellow. Si...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Sioux child's hightop moccasins with matching leggings in buffalo hoof motif. Metal beads on leggings. Sinew sewn, brain tanned deer skin and parfl...
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Sioux fully beaded moccasins with buffalo hoof design. Cotton cloth uppers with green trade cloth banding. Bronze faceted beads.PERIOD: Late 19th C...
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Sicangu Lakota (Brule' Sioux) beaded saddle cover with fringe of brain tanned buffalo. Fully beaded with teepees, American flags, and geometric dev...
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Ute beaded tail bag, Ute in form and style however influenced by the allied Jicarilla Apaches. A picture of Chipeta taken in 1870 shows an exceptio...
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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...
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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...
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Crow, possibly Blackfeet, made frontal of harness leather, seeds, brass and glass beads. 12" x 14"PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - C...
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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...
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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...
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Sioux beaded pipe bag having large beaded panels both sides on brain tanned buffalo with quilled slats on parfleche. Original fringe. Sinew sewn.PE...
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1858 Presentation Beadwork on Red Stroud. Beaded by the Crow. Written on the piece, "This was wrought by the Wetunkiska Asiow Indian Mission residi...
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