The Ostuw Collection

Great Lakes Huron war dance club with forged projectile. Well carved, painted and tacked. Green paint and hatch marks on top. Ex. Iowa MuseumPERIOD...

Blackfeet moccasins with classic beadwork, smoke from the teepee, classic design and parfleche soles.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Great Plains...

Sioux dentalia shell choker with blue and brass beads, harness leather spacing and brain tanned thongs.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - S...

Sioux boy's dentalia shell breastplate with brass trade beads. A rare piece.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Sioux, Native AmericanSIZE: ...

Sioux split horn bonnet with buffalo hide liner. Brain tanned buffalo skull cap. Long dangling ermine tails, tips beaded with greasy yellows and re...

Osage tacked and green ochre gun stock dance club with forged point moved over from earlier weapon. Red and green pigment paint. Collected from an ...

Warrior's necklace of blue padre beads with talons interspersed with carved elk dewclaws.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Unknown, Native AmericanSIZE: ...

Mid 19th Century Pony club. Stylized ball headed club of tiger maple. Patina from use.PERIOD: Mid 19th CenturyORIGIN: East, United StatesSIZE: 26"L

Crow Society staff, coup stick, belonged to Chief Face Pretty. Lump Wood Society, original otter skin wrapping. Original feathers replaced with han...

Crow coup stick that belonged to Chief Plenty Coup, Battle of the Rosebud. Collected directly on the reservation. Painted and red stroud wrapped sh...

Blackfeet highly decorated horse Martingale. German silver tacks and tin cones. Floral design on red stroud.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Great...

Ball headed war club of walnut with carved panther effigy. The panther is rare and a powerful warrior symbol that has different interpretations "He...

Early Northern Plains roach of red dyed porcupine guard hair and deer tail. Tightly woven center. Stand not includedPERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Gre...

Early Northern Plains roach of deer tail and turkey beard with finely woven center. Brain tanned thongs for attaching. Stand not includedPERIOD: Mi...

Northern Plains roach of porcupine guard hairs and red dyed deer tail with twined cloth center. Outside hairs being white, pink and yellow. Old col...

Pipe tomahawk with steel spike inserted into a brass body. Heavily engraved, bowl removed during period of use and steel spike inserted. Shaft was ...

Chippewa otter skin bandolier. Decorated with red feather fluffs and beaded panel below. Ex. Heath collection.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Midwest -...

Northern Plains teepee bag with beaded strips, fully beaded side panels and top, tin cones and horsehair adornments. Front brain tanned buffalo, ba...

Sioux fully beaded patriotic vest with teepees, crosses and four flags. Sinew sewn on brain tanned deer skin then flour sack lined. 15" at shoulder...

Plains buffalo lance of osage. Blade originally from a sabre. Few survived. Blade 21", overall 8'.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Basin - Unknown...

Frontier made skinning knife used a barrel band and a large wing bone for a handle. Patina to spare. Assume mountain man or trapper used. Wear on b...

Northern Plains bear hide bow and quiver case with original bow and 8 original 3" steel tipped arrows. Ex. Black Pipe Collection.PERIOD: 19th Centu...

Crow knife sheath with harness leather, copper rivets and burnished surface.PERIOD: Last Half 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Crow, Native Ameri...

19th Century powder horn with etched image of Indian chief having single drop headdress. Patina to spare. We would assume used by a mountain man.PE...

Crow tacked knife sheath of harness leather with Hudson Bay trade knife.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Crow, Native AmericanSIZE: Ove...

Just a cowboy gun - noted on barrel "Texas Ranger". 38 caliber SNW special cartridges. Made in Spain or Belgium. Used by a cowboy who couldn't affo...

Plateau flag fully covered with reddish wool trade cloth having cross cutouts and dangling domestic goose feathers. Brass bells top and bottom. Bea...

Well tacked Great Lakes gun stock club with tapering hexagonal point. Recessed hand grip and shaft, profusely decorated with a pattern of pewter he...

Horse pictorial ball headed club with stylized carved running Indian pony on left side next to ball. Two holes cut for drops, exceptional patina wi...

Ball headed dance club with expanded shaft, engraving with initials "J.Y." Fully painted with red wash.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: East, United Sta...

Sioux horse stick with hatch marks representing coups along top. Found by an antelope hunter in South Dakota. Quilled drops ending in tin cones wit...