Native American Beadwork

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...

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 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...

Gun Barrel Flute Husis Owyeen (Wounded Head) killed two cavalry soldiers at the Battle of the Bear Paw on the second morning. He took their guns an...

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

Iroquois made beaded bag with double sided floral beading and hanging strap.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Northeast - Iroquois, Native AmericanSIZE: ...

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 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. 45" ...

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...

Sioux fully beaded shirt by Anita Brown, Chief Red Cloud - 7th generation; beaded in 1993, with documentation. For display or wear. Weighs 17 pound...

Sioux pictorial beaded tunic. Thread sewn and assembled using multiple hide panels. Beaded with 12 horses and 10 stars. Initials "C.S.C." Colors of...

Sioux Lakota beaded moccasins decorated with a geometric beaded design in white, navy and green on blue background. Bifurcated tabs terminating in ...

Iroquois child's moccasins. Beaded on soft hide in red trade wood with silk trim. Intricate floral beading in white motif and light blue.PERIOD: La...

Comanche (possibly Cheyenne or Arapaho) infant soft brain tanned deer skin moccasins with partial bead decorations and parfleche soles. Red ochre u...

Comanche (possibly Kiowa) infant soft brain tanned deer skin moccasins, sinew sewn with partial bead decorations and parfleche soles.PERIOD: Late 1...

Blackfeet made fringed belt pouch with flap. Brain tanned with translucent beads with cobalt blue and gold geometric design. Flap outlined in blue....

Northern Plains beaded hide ball decorated with multicolored crosses on a blue and white background.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains -...

Northern Plains beaded hide ball with multicolored beaded bands.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Northern Plains, Native AmericanSIZ...

Apache infant soft brain tanned antelope hide moccasins with partial bead decorations and parfleche soles.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Southwes...

Southern Plains infant soft brain tanned deer skin moccasins with partial bead decorations in red white hearts, greasy yellows. Soft soles.PERIOD: ...

Lakota Sioux child's brain tanned deer skin moccasins with parfleche soles, decorated in multicolored buffalo hoof design.PERIOD: Late 19th Century...

Blackfeet fringed pouch. Beadwork in greasy yellows and red white hearts on blue background with green checkerboard design.PERIOD: Late 19th Centur...

Blackfeet awl case on harness leather. White background with geometric designs in cobalt blue and gold. Three rows of tin cone drops plus bottom.PE...