Plateau Belt Pouch beautifully adored with cut blue, green, red, pink and green seed beads.

Measures 5 in x 5 1/2 in

$2,200.00

circa 1870

Classic Arapaho style beadwork on hard boot leather. Tin cones border the flap, sides and bottom of the bag. Seed beaded and sinew sewn with original twisted yellow ochre fringe. Sold with museum stand

bag only: 13" length , 9" wide

with fringe 22” in length

SOLD

Ute Tab Bag, Brain tanned hide adorned with white, red, green, yellow and blue seed beads.

Measures 8 in x 2 1/4 in

SOLD

19th century

Beaded strip with horse hair portion on bottom. Three military buttons attached.

length: 26"

$ 4,500.00

c. 1875

A classic bar design with long fringe, four of which are braided with brass trade beads attached. Scalloped edge on drop.

Ex. Paul Dyck Collection

Size: 30" tall w. fringe x 6 1/8" wide

SOLD

c 1890

A Plateau Beaded Belt Pouch with blue pink and green seed beads arranged in a floral pattern with a brass stud in the middle.The edge of the beaded panel is trimmed in gold satin.

3 3/4" wide by 4 1/4" long

$ 1,800.00

c. 19th cent.

Southern Cheyenne beaded strike-a-light bag on commercial leather. Two churches designs with crosses on top in red beads outlined in white on a light blue background. Decorated with tin cones.

Size: 5 1/4" x 3"

SOLD

c. 19th c

Blackfeet Iniskim with pony beaded pouch. An Iniskim can be one of several unusually shaped rocks. The most sought after by the Blackfeet are the baculite fossils. The tentacles of the ancient relative of the octopus and squid from which they came are tapered and segmented so they break apart into irregular parts called baculites and vary from large [5" to 6"] to tiny ones [3/4"]. They are shaped more or less in the form of a buffalo. They were common in the inland seas that covered most of North America and disappeared from among the Earth's living creatures about 60 to 70 million years ago. There are several places in Blackfeet country where they may be found. Inasmuch as the natives view them as very powerful holy objects, the location of these places is held in great secrecy.

Size: 6" long, 2 3/4" wide

SOLD

c. 1880

Yellow ochre dyed body, typical Cheyenne geometric design on face and verso.  Two drops, beaded on edges, fringed on top.  

24" long, 5" wide

SOLD

c. 1870s

Small "strike a lite" or ration pouch. Front beaded in white with a light blue border with accents in red white heart and dark blue. Top flap beaded in white, yellow, red and dark blue.

Back of the bag with a border of dark blue beads. Hide fringes decorated with tin cones and metal beads.

Size: 3 3/4" tall (plus fringe), 2 1/2" wide.

SOLD

c. 1875

A beautiful Crow pouch with classic Crow floral bead work.

9 1/2" long (pouch with fringe),  5" wide.

SOLD

c. 1890-1900

A classic Sioux Strike a lite bag made of commercial leather. Front and side beaded in red, green blue white and pink seed beads with cut metal beads.

Drops of leather with blue and green tube beads. Tin cones on ends of drops. Black, yellow and white trade beads on the back. Sinew sewn. Excellent condition.

Size:bag only 6" x 4". Drops an add'l 5" length

SOLD

19th Century

A large Cheyenne fetish in a rare size. Vivid bead colors, stuffed with buffalo hair and sweet grass.

One white glass bead inserted in the stitch line of the seam on the belly of the fetish. Sinew sewn on buffalo hide.

5 1/2" x 4 1/2"

SOLD

c.1900

A Crow Belt Pouch on deer hide with a beaded flap. Pink, light blue, dark blue, pumpkin, red white hearts and white beads are used. Fringe along the edge with remnants of red trade wool.

Width: 3 1/2" by 3.5" without fringe.

SOLD

c. 1880

White beaded background with green, navy and red seed beads. Large red and green trade beads on fringe. Design repeated on verso.

39" long, 6" wide

$ 9,500.00

c. 1875

Northern Plains Beaded Potion bottle with quill work.

Worn around neck.

4 in. tall including stopper. 1 3/4 in. wide.

Sold

c. 19th Century

Northern Plains strike-a-lite pouch beaded on both sides and beaded fringe,

7 1/2 " long including fringe, 3" wide

Sold

Late 19th Century

Cheyenne/Arapaho tobacco bag Late 19th Century. Tobacco bag on buffalo hide.  Geometric bead design and long twisted fringe.  33 by 6 1/2 including fringe.  Old collection tag.

overall length: 34"

$ 9,500.00

c. 1880

A Great Lakes (Ojibwa, Winnebago?) carrying bag in very fine condition. Made of smoked moose hide and beaded with opaque and transparent seed beads as well as facet cut steel beads. the inside of the flap is lined with cotton calico fabric.

11" wide,  10" tall (not incl. fringe)

SOLD

19th century

Native tanned hide with one side beaded. Outlined in apple green, with a primary bar design of white & black beads, with the center body of dark pink, black & apple green beads. From the top of the fetish is a hide thong w/2 brass beads.

6" long, 2" wide

$ 1,600.00

c. 1900

Possible or Tipi Bags were used by the Plains Indians to transport personal items while crossing the Great Plains. They were also used within the tipi. Made of brain tanned deerskin these bags are heavily beaded with seed beads and are decorated with tin cones and horsehair.

Size 20" x 12"

Sold

c. 1880s

Central Plains hide cradle model, fully beaded on a white background with designs in yellow, red, dark blue and green. Buffalo hide backing.

Size: 5 3/4" tall, 1 1/2" wide

$ 1,650.00

Sold

c. 1890

Sioux Child's Vest with a white beaded background, and blue/green/red-white hearts and yellow seed beads forming geometric patterns. Sinew sewn with geometric symbols and crosses.

The red cotton interior shows little wear and the vest is in overall excellent condition.

Size: 17 in long; 17 in wide

Sold

19th c.

A very nice child's artifact, quite rare. On buffalo.

6 3/4" x 3" (extended).

Sold

c. 1870

Unusual pouch made of two beaded moccasins vamps. Faceted seed beads on a white background with three green lanes with geometric symbols in dark blue, yellow and red.

Hide fringe with early trade beads above the beadwork and at the toe. Purse string ties also decorated with trade beads.

Size: 7" x 4" (plus toe fringe)

$ 1,850.00

SOLD

c. 1880

A fine miniature tobacco bag with morning star bead design and typical bead work on verso.  Quilled drop and fringe.  

12" long including fringe, 2 3/4 " wide

$1,800.00

SOLD

c. 1875

Classic Cheyenne tobacco bag. Geometric bead design on front and verso. Twisted fringe on bottom. On buffalo hide.

Attributed to General George Armstrong Custer.

31" long inc. fringe, 6 3/8" wide.

Sold

An intricate loom-woven sash, 19th-century trade beads at each end; elements of Chippewa / Potawatomi geometric pattern.

48” x 4 ½” (not including fringe beads)

Sold

circa: 1890

A Flathead Saddle Blanket made of wool trade cloth

and decorated with small seed beads in a variety of colors. Edge trimmed in leather with several large brass bells.

On wall mount 20" wide by 26" length

Size: 50" long x 19" w

Sold

circa: 1890-1910

A wonderful and complete Child's Size Crow Saddle with wood tree and tall pommels.

Saddle frame covered in hide and canvas with harness leather straps. Wood stirrups are leather covered and inset with trade wool. Pommel flaps are beaded and trimmed in red and green trade cloth with brass tacks. Rarely seen child's saddle in excellent condition.

Saddle length 16 1/2'. Width: 11 1/4" tall. Stirrup drop length is 16"

Sold

c. turn of the 19th century

A fully beaded blanket strip which is sewn with sinew and cotton thread. Green, blue, red and white glass seed beads are used in a traditional design using four rosettes with crosses and the addition of brass beads.

Size: 53" x 3"1/2

Sold

c. 1890

A heavily beaded Plains Necklace fetish on hide. The front of the fetish is fully beaded with a central pattern of multi colored beads. On either side of this are two staggered rows of red white-hearts and light blue beads. The back is partially beaded with an "X" pattern of beadwork. The necklace consists of large black trade beads and brass beads.

The overall length of the necklace on its stand is 17".The fetish alone measures 5 1/'2" long and 3" wide with beaded drops.

Sold

Sioux beaded pictorial hide scout jacket with horses and riders in front and back. Stars and a moon symbols on shoulders and sleeves. The hide has been treated with blue pigment. Applied fringe at the sleeves and lower hem.

Size: 31" tall, 21" wide, 18" each sleeve.

Sold