The Ostuw Collection

Sioux cavalry officer's sword with scatter beaded handle. "Wish it could tell it's story."PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Sioux, Native ...

Sioux fully beaded knife sheath on brain tanned buffalo. Once had four brain tanned drops having tin cones with yellow horsehair, one remaining. Kn...

Metis Cree bandolier with classic beading on red stroud with white bead edging and black silk ribbon border.PERIOD: Mid 19th CenturyORIGIN: Northea...

Crow saddle with brain tanned deer hide. Original beaded horns and drops. Original wood and hide stirrups with drops connected with saddle leather ...

Nez Perce saddle drop. Brain tanned floral beaded panels on yellow background. Brain tanned elk hide with long fringe. Flour sack lined with stains...

Choctaw bandolier shot pouch from a Natchez Mississippi collection. Silk ribbon fringe at shoulder. Exceptional graphic condition. White beading on...

Northern Plains warrior's necklace of wolverine claws interspersed with early brass trade beads. 25 claws strung on two brain tanned thongs.PERIOD:...

Nez Perce loin cloth beaded with fringe. Pictorial with arrows, stars and whirling logs. Red stroud edging on black trade cloth with brain tanned f...

Sioux beaded belt that belonged to Iron Eyes Cody. Made from a pre-reservation Sioux war shirt bead strip, beaded on buffalo and marked on back "Ir...

Warrior's necklace with bear claws and large grizzly tooth with Hudson Bay trade beads. Restrung, nice patina. Left Native hands in 2005.PERIOD: Mi...

Sioux Ghost Dance bow lance, spear point carved of wood resembling the earlier bow with an iron point. Brain tanned buffalo drops. Red painted with...

Northern Plains parfleche bonnet case with original long fringe. Old smoke from the teepee. The term parfleche was first coined by the French fur t...

Sioux bow and quiver with beaded bands on top and bottom on both bow and quiver case. Bow 46" of bodack with original sinew string and three 24" ma...

Northern Plains hide painting, Buffalo Society, pre-reservation. Two buffalo heads, two full body buffalos, two thunderbirds and buffalo sun shield...

Sioux dentalia shell choker with brain tanned hide spacers.PERIOD: Last Half 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Sioux, Native AmericanSIZE: 17" x 2"

Central Plains warrior's otter skin breastplate/necklace with hand carved and painted deer antlers simulating grizzly claws. Venetian beads strung ...

Crow carved and tacked quirt. Beaver hide grip with hawk bells and pictorial drawings painted red, carved and tacked. Patina to spare.PERIOD: Mid 1...

"Keeper of the Horses" Northern Plains pictorial painted robe with over 50 horses, pictorial story telling of horse raids painted on Dapple Gray br...

Apache bow and quiver case made of mountain lion hide. A little hair still remains. Vibrant paint. Bow is covered with rattlesnake skin and has fou...

Child's teepee depicting highly graphic battle scene painted on brain tanned deer skin. This piece was acquired from Wilma Silvey, age 89, in 2005,...

Crow hair piece sold at the Billings Hardware Store for $15. Human hair, yellow ochre, otter and finely beaded drop. Many of the brave's braids wer...

Sioux fully beaded moccasins with buffalo hoof design. Pink background with greasy yellows. Functional beads, sinew sewn on brain tanned buffalo.PE...

Blackfeet moccasins with floral design and cut beads on brain tanned buffalo.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Blackfeet, Native AmericanS...

Sioux moccasins with red background, long beaded tabs having tin cones and feather fluffs.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Great Plains - Sioux, N...

Massive Sioux catlinite T pipe with file burnt stem, quilling and mallard neck. Pipe still showing rasp marks.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Gre...

Sioux hair drop with brass trade beads, blue beaded background having red and yellow geometric designs. White horsehair drop dyed blue.PERIOD: Late...

Kiowa hair drop on stroud with 2 1/2" German silver conchos attached by brain tanned deer hide column. Buffalo hide parfleche top with red stroud e...

Meskwaki otter skin turban with adornments of German silver, silk ribbons and German silver bear paw on front. Patina and fading from use.PERIOD: E...

Prairie split horn headdress. Probably osage. Red stroud tested for black dyes proving age. Dyed horse hair, split buffalo horns tipped with horse ...

Blackfeet or Crow split horn headdress collected by Ron Hall at Browning, Montana from grandson of Edward Axe (Blackfeet) who acquired from Jack Bl...