Sioux Brain Tanned and Beaded Work Bag
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Beaded, beadwork, Native American, Sioux, Brain Tanned, Bag, Hide
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Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide
Brain Tanned
Plateau and Ute Doll Cradleboard Collection
$75,000 / set
Plateau and Ute Doll Cradleboard Collection
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Fully beaded edges and brain tanned deer skin, 20” 5. Ute cradleboard. Brain tanned deer skin with cream algae stain, 21” 6.
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Toys and Dolls
Materials
Other
19th Century Native American Crow Beaded Saddle
By Crow
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Genuine crow saddle with brain tanned deer hide. Original beaded horns and drops.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Other
19th Century Native American Crow Woman's Saddle
By Crow
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
The buffalo saddle throw is brain tanned and appears to be original to the saddle.
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Horn
Authentic 19th Century Nez Perce Beaded Cradleboard
By Nez Perce Indians
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Contour beaded with floral design and faceted beads. Original brain tanned elk hide. The inside board was once lined with brain tanned deer skin, however cut away as assume was soiled.
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Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide
Ute Sheep Horn Spoon, circa 1870
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Cottchall Collection. Collected 1870.” Brain tanned with blue and white beading on top.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Horn
Beaded Sioux Patriotic Vest
By Sioux Indian Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Native American Sioux fully beaded patriotic vest with teepees, crosses and four flags. Sinew sewn on brain tanned deer skin then flour sack lined. 15" at shoulders, 19" at chest, 19...
Category
Late 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
1920s Native American Penobscot Bear Paw Snowshoes
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Sinew sewn. 11” x 7”, with brain-tanned thongs. Made for a child. Exceptional sinew work.
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Wood
Sioux Child's Moccasins
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Sioux child's moccasins. 5 1/2" brain tanned elk. Classic Sioux buffalo hoof design with yellow crosses with red faceted beads and commercial tanned elk hide.
Category
Vintage 1940s American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Other
Arapaho Beaded Moccasins
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Arapaho beaded men’s moccasins of brain tanned deer skin with parfleche soles. Trunk piece, unused condition.
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
Nez Perce Beaded Patriotic Belt Pouch
By Nez Perce Indians
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
With double American Flags and Crest on one side against sky blue background, and floral red rose motif on reverse on pink background. Beaded on brain tanned deer skin. Came direct f...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
Lakota Sioux Beaded Moccasins
By Sioux Indian Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Red white heart beads and brain tanned hide with hard soles. Sinew sewn, soft hide.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
1900 Kiowa Hair Drop
$8,625
1900 Kiowa Hair Drop
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
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 edging, brass tracks and beading.
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Silver
19th Century Cheyenne Leggings
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Cheyenne pictorial leggings with horseshoes (horse stealing). Brain tanned deer skin, yellow ochre and green with red ochre on reverse.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
Santee Sioux Gauntlets
$4,025
Santee Sioux Gauntlets
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Has colors of red, blue, green, white, and yellow. Brain tanned fawn skin, silk ribbon edged. Circa 1920. 15" plus 5" fringe.
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
Native American Cree Beaded Gauntlets
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Featuring five multicolored flowers and zigzag pattern banding done in colors of red, yellow, black, blue, green, and white. 18" plus 6 1/2" fringe on the side. Brain tanned doe skin...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Leather, Beads
Split Horn Headdress
$40,250
Split Horn Headdress
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Heavily adorned split horn headdress with ermine drops, silk ribbons, hawk bells, stroud covered horns, brass trade beads and brass buttons on red stroud brain tanned buffalo cap. St...
Category
Antique 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Fur
Native American Sioux Beaded Saddle Throw
By Sioux Indian Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Native American Sioux saddle throw. Beaded on brain tanned elk hide and red stroud. Beadwork features a traditional "hourglass" design done in colors of blue, green, and white with s...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
Native Apache Beaded Strike-a-light Pouch
By Apache Indian Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Beads of red, blue, green white, light blue beaded on brain tanned hide. Stunning example of the late 19th Century.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
19th Century Northern Plains Hide Painting
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Two buffalo heads, two full body buffalos, two thunderbirds and buffalo sun shield in center. On brain tanned deer skin. Ex. Van Landingham Period: Last half of the 19th century Ori...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Other
Nez Perce Huckleberry Basket, circa 1880
By Nez Perce Indians
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Store twine rim loops with brain tanned shoulder straps. Heavily constructed.
Category
Antique 1880s American Native American Decorative Baskets
Materials
Other
19th Century Arapaho Large Panel Tobacco Bag
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Arapaho large panel, tobacco bag with old collection tag "tobacco bag" white seal #450. Brain tanned buffalo calf. All original, remains soft and supple.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Hide
Northern Plains Pictorial Scabbard
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Rifle scabbard on brain tanned elk. Exceptional beading. Warrior with double trailer headdress.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide
Crow Beaded Blanket Strip
By Crow
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Blanket strip with four rosettes having silk and brain tanned drops with brass beads and hawk bells.
Category
Late 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Fabric, Beads
Sioux Warrior's Deer Skin Shirt and Leggings
By Sioux Indian Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Shirt and leggings are brain tanned, shirt with long fringe and ermine fur-on hide drops.
Category
Antique 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
Plateau Beaded Gauntlets
$5,175
Plateau Beaded Gauntlets
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Thick 5" fringe with cloth lining. Brain tanned elk hide. 15 1/2"L x 8 1/2"W. Ex. Ron Gillett.
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Leather, Beads
Native American Sioux Beaded Teepee Bag
By Sioux Indian Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Having tin cones ending in red horsehair against brightly colored beads. Made of brain tanned buckskin with undecorated back. Great for display in a handmade indigenous beadwork col...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
Sioux Beaded Pipe Bag
$5,175
Sioux Beaded Pipe Bag
By Sioux Indian Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Having large-beaded panels both sides on brain tanned buffalo. Bead patterns feature white background with green and blue traditional designs on front and back.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
Native American Pipe and Bag
$12,000
Native American Pipe and Bag
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Circa 1780-1820. 13" overall closed x 3". Attached to the brain tanned thong is an antler pipe tamper with six "X" marks and three divots on each side.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century American Native American Objects
Materials
Stone
19th Century Sioux Bow, Arrows and Beaded Quiver Case
By Sioux Indian Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Bow and quiver case of brain tanned buffalo calf. Period: Last quarter of the 19th century Origin: Sioux Size: bow 46", arrows 24".
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Other
Native American Plateau Beaded Pictorial Saddle Throw
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
A stunning piece for display on the walls of a Southwestern home or handmade indigenous beadwork collection. Size: 24" brain tanned elk fringe each end, and 3" on back. 55' x 13" plu...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Cotton, Beads
Blackfeet Split Horn Bonnet
$13,800
Blackfeet Split Horn Bonnet
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Sinew-sewn stroud hide cap with lazy-stitch beaded headband on brain tanned buffalo. The horns terminating in bells, beads, feather, and horsehair drops.
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Fur
Nez Perce Saddle Throw
$10,350
Nez Perce Saddle Throw
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Highly decorated Nez Perce saddle throw on brain tanned elk hide. 50” plus 30” fringe, both ends.
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Beads
"Cheyenne Princess" Style Doll
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
The sculpture is of mixed media: 1880 vintage US government flour sacking, Indian brain-tanned buckskin, buffalo hair, vintage Indian seed beads, deer and buffalo tendon sinew, 1850 ...
Category
2010s American Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Hide, Beads
Native Kiowa 19th Century Pictorial Child's Teepee
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
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, white woman, was handed down throu...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Other
Pair Plateau Parfleche Packets
$9,680 / item
Pair Plateau Parfleche Packets
By Plateau Indians
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Matched pair of Plateau parfleche packets with diamonds and stylized flowers and brain tanned ties. Difficult to find a pair. Very nice, rare design.
Category
Antique Early 1900s American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Other
19th Century Blackfeet Split Horn Headdress
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Long red (now turned orange-ish) and blue hair on red trade cloth drop with five dangling ermines with brain tanned fringe. Buffalo split horns with tacks, feathers, silk, quilled dr...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads, Feathers
Organic Brain Shape Black & Tan Petrified Wood Tray Bowl Dish Plate Ashtray
By Established Lines
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Organic Brain Shape Black & Tan Petrified Wood Tray Bowl Dish Plate Ashtray
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mid-Century Modern Ashtrays
Materials
Petrified Wood
19th Century Cheyenne Beaded Moccasins
By Sioux Indian Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Red, yellow and blue on white background. Soft soled brain tanned hide. PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN: Great Plains - Cheyenne SIZE: 10"L Originally crafted out of practical nece...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide, Beads
Impressive 1870s Arapaho/Sioux Beaded Hide Dress
By Arapaho Indian Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Faceted Beads; Arapaho/Sioux dress on brain-tanned buffalo. Simple four color design; was probably the first dress made after quilling.
Category
Antique 1870s American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide
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Salmon Nootka Native American Hand Drum
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Nootka hand drum with polychrome salmon, brass tacks, brain tanned handhold, original sale tag of $40.
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide
19th Century Native American Yanktonai Sioux Beaded Belt
By Sioux Indian Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Yanktonai Sioux at Fort Peck fully beaded sinew sewn belt on brain tanned buffalo. Greasy yellows and red white hearts.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Beads
19th Century Klickitat Carrying Basket
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Klickitat/Cowlitz partially imbricated basket in checkerboard design with brain tanned belt loops and top rim loops and shoulder straps all intact.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Decorative Baskets
Materials
Other
Native Painted Buffalo Hide
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Native brain tanned painted, quilled and beaded buffalo calf hide with four quilled rosettes each having four drops with deer dew claws.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Hide
Authentic Hand Beaded Nez Perce Flat Bag With Peacock
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Images are set against a dusty blue backdrop with orange edging. Bag has brain tanned straps and cloth lined interior. A lovely piece that would display nicely on the walls of a Sout...
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Native American Objects
Materials
Leather, Beads
Paiute Indian Doll
Located in New York, NY
It was sewn primarily of brain tanned deer hide with trade cloth attachments, beads and is sewn with both cotton thread and sinew.
Category
Antique 19th Century American Native American Objects
Materials
Cotton, Beads
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