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.
Nez Perce bear claw necklace with five large front black bear claws interspersed between glass and brass trade beads on brain tanned thong. Circa 1...
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Chief White Feather "Ramar" Dr. Teyet Ramar , better known as Chief White Feather Sitting Bull (1908-1957) Born of Sioux father and Chippewa mother...
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Sioux fully beaded shirt by Anita Brown, Chief Red Cloud - 7th generation; beaded in 1993, with documentation. For display or wear. Weighs 17 pound...
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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...
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Sioux Lakota beaded moccasins decorated with a geometric beaded design in white, navy and green on blue background. Bifurcated tabs terminating in ...
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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...
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Comanche (possibly Kiowa) infant soft brain tanned deer skin moccasins, sinew sewn with partial bead decorations and parfleche soles.PERIOD: Late 1...
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Blackfeet made fringed belt pouch with flap. Brain tanned with translucent beads with cobalt blue and gold geometric design. Flap outlined in blue....
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Northern Plains beaded hide ball decorated with multicolored crosses on a blue and white background.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains -...
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Northern Plains beaded hide ball with multicolored beaded bands.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Northern Plains, Native AmericanSIZ...
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Apache infant soft brain tanned antelope hide moccasins with partial bead decorations and parfleche soles.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Southwes...
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Southern Plains infant soft brain tanned deer skin moccasins with partial bead decorations in red white hearts, greasy yellows. Soft soles.PERIOD: ...
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Lakota Sioux child's brain tanned deer skin moccasins with parfleche soles, decorated in multicolored buffalo hoof design.PERIOD: Late 19th Century...
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Blackfeet fringed pouch. Beadwork in greasy yellows and red white hearts on blue background with green checkerboard design.PERIOD: Late 19th Centur...
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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...
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Blackfeet awl case. Green and yellow geometrics with drops both on cap and bottom.PERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Blackfeet, Native...
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This is an exceptional 19th Century fully beaded and painted puberty ball from the Nez Perce Native American Indians. The ball consist of alternati...
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Nez Perce pictorial flat bag. Brain tanned hide, flour sack lined, red flannel backed.PERIOD: Early 19th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Nez Perce, Native...
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Sioux beaded armband with with rosette and silk ribbon. 11" with a 2 1/2" rosette having original silk ribbon. Sinew sewn on brain tanned hide.PERI...
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Sioux turtle fetish with alternating cobalt blue and greasy yellow beadwork with filled in back of scatter beads. Sinew sewn on brain tanned hide.P...
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Sioux moccasins made from brain tanned buffalo and sinew sewn with buffalo hoof design. Beaded in green, red, white and various blues.PERIOD: 19th ...
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Classic Sioux made pipe bag with bright beaded panels. Brain tanned deer skin covered with yellow ochre and adorned with red, white and blue beads ...
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Ojibwe bandolier bag with floral pattern on full transcluscent background. 12" x 30"The Ojibwe people can be found through Ontario and into Montana...
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Northern Plains woman's bone hair pipe breastplate designed as a necklace of glass, brass and tubular carved bone beads with metal tokens along the...
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Cheyenne child's beaded hide belt. Thread and sinew sewn. Softly tanned hide belt with alternating hexagon and triangular designs in colors of coba...
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Sioux moccasins in the buffalo hoof style with yellow ochre buffers and thick buffalo hide soles. Beaded geometric designs exceptionally executed.P...
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Sioux wide geometric beaded blanket strip. Sinew sewn on brain tanned hide on 19th Century red stroud. Larger and longer than most.PERIOD: Late 19t...
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Plateau gauntlets with floral design over white background. Brain tanned doe skin with fringe.PERIOD: Early 20th CenturyORIGIN: Plateau - Unknown, ...
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Sioux dress with fully beaded cape both sides. Fringe on arms, bottom and throughout midsection with glass tube beads. Both sinew and thread sewn. ...
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Sioux beaded woman's dress of the Elk Society. Made of brain tanned deer skin with fringed chest and arms. Dress exhibits fringed panels across the...
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Nez Perce gauntlets of brain tanned deer skin, intricate floral design, and small faceted beads. Acquired 1988 from Walt Turner in Grangeville, who...
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Blackfeet beaded vest with beaded tie. Doe skin back with fringe. Display or wearable. 25”H x 19”W, approx. size 42.PERIOD: Mid 20th CenturyORIGIN...
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Large Arapaho made pipe bag. Beaded both sides and top. Different designs. Large beaded panel with long fringe. 7" x 9" panel, 21", Fringe 14", 35"...
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Plateau saddle drape with brain tanned elk and matching red stroud panels both ends with beaded hourglass design. Long fringe drops and short fring...
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Sioux beaded leggings of brain tanned hide banded with lazy stitched beading. Beaded with geometric patterns on a white field with fringe. Sinew se...
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Kiowa/Comanche hightop moccasins dyed with yellow ochre. Adorned with a single beaded band above the sole, the leggings with two beaded bands down ...
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