Native American Beadwork

Vintage Native American medicine bag or pouch fashioned out of the shell of a box turtle and buckskin leather with cords and fringe accented with beads and miniature vertebrae bones...

Constructed from native tanned hide with red trade cloth and glass trade beads in intricate designs including stylized tepees on a classic blue Sioux background.

Vintage piece of Native American dance regalia fashioned from the taxidermy shell of some variety of box turtle shell with beaded accents. Hole in the back suggests it was once the t...

A 19th century American Indian beaded telescope case (Blackfoot/Blackfeet). The case is composed of native tanned hide and beaded in red, yellow, pumpkin and black trade beads in geo...

A Plateau Flat Bag constructed of hide and fully beaded on one side with glass trade beads. A whimsical design with a bird in a cherry tree.

The hide is partially beaded in traditional designs with blue, red, yellow, green and pink trade beads.

19th century antique Sioux (Native American/Plains Indian) child's beaded vest constructed of native tanned hide and beaded in blue, white-heart red, white and metallic trade beads.

This remarkable antique Northwest Coast Native American hide pouch was created by a member of the Athapaskan tribe (North American Indian) around the middle of the 19th century, know...

Constructed of commercial harness leather with trade beads and tin cones. The Arapaho, members of the Plains Indian culture group, were nomadic with territory extending across par...

Constructed of native tanned hide and extensively beaded. The blue, green, red, yellow and white glass trade beads are arranged in artful geometric and cross motifs.

A Strike-A-Light pouch constructed of Native tanned hide with glass trade beads in red, white, green, yellow, black and blue.

Constructed of native tanned Mule Deer hide and beaded with trade beads, fringed with pony beads and tin-cone danglers, a German silver button adorns the flap.

This pouch is constructed of native tanned hide decorated with glass trade beads in geometric designs with a stylized tepee.

Cases like this were used to house an awl, or perforator - a tool used for making moccasins, clothing and other beaded items. Holes would be perforated in the hide and then sinew wou...

A different design created from glass trade beads adorns either side. The first panel consists of a floriate motif while the reverse has stacked arrows.

It is constructed of native tanned hide, sinew-sewn and beaded in traditional Sioux colors and design and rubbed with yellow ochre pigment.

Beadwork was always used by tribes in this area, but when European settlers introduced glass beads, they seemed to have a special sparkle to them.

Vintage 19th century Sioux (Plains Indian) Native American antique pictorial beaded hide vest, circa 1875-1900. Pictorial design includes tipi (teepee) motifs and geometric elements ...

Expertly constructed of native tanned hide and intricately beaded with trade beads in a classic Blackfeet geometric design against a blue field.

This vest, which was likely made around 1880 by a member of the Sioux tribe, is constructed of native tanned buffalo hide sinew-sewn and beaded. Pictorial elements include stylized ...

Beautiful large partially beaded floral gauntlets on smoked tanned hide from the Rocky Boy Cree Reservation in Montana.

Native American Rare Tlingit Beaded pouch or wall pocket Northwest Coast America Cloth and colored glass beads, with three panels of foliage decoration, Period late 19th century, ...

WONDERFUL AND VERY WELL MADE INDIAN BEAD WORK BUCKSKIN GLOVES. THE EDGE AND THE MIDDLE OF THE GLOVE IS TRIMMED IN RABBIT FUR AND DETAIL STITCHING .THE LINING OF THESE GLOVES IS A EAR...

THE 19THC INDIAN BEADED CALF SKIN LEATHER PILLOW HAS THE ORIGINAL BEAD WORK AND ALL ORIGINAL FRINGE.THE BACKING IS ALSO ORIGINAL AND IS MADE FROM A HANDMADE BLANKET.IT IS STUFFED WIT...

An impressive antique Plains American Indian vest fully beaded on both sides with a number of motifs including American Flags, crosses, thunderbirds and hand prints with trade ribbon...

Antique Native American Indian Plains beaded Skull cracker club fine old stone headed skull cracker club with buck skin bead work and red pigment Period 19th century Size: ...

A late Classic period fully beaded cradle (papoose). Constructed of native tanned buffalo hide, sinew sewn with glass trade beads, trade cloth and wood.

A very nice pair of Native American Indian beaded Moccasins made from deerskin. They have held their form nicely as they have been kept to form with tissue.

Amazing 48 star hand beaded & sewn Navajo Indian work sewn on buck skin .

A pair of Sioux (Plains Indian) beaded possible bags (also referred to as tipi bags).

PAIR OF 19THC BEADED INDIAN MOCCASIN'S WITH FOX FUR TRIM AND SEAL SKIN BODY.GREAT CONDITION WITH MINOR WEAR ON THE BASE OF THE MOCCASIN'S.

Bandolier bags are constructed and beaded by women, though they are used primarily to complete the ceremonial outfits worn by men.

THIS PAIR OF AMERICAN INDIAN FABRIC DOLLS ARE SPECTACULAR.THEY ARE APACHE AND HAVE ALL THE ORIGINAL HANDMADE CLOTHING AND BEADWORK.HER SHIRT IS VELVET W/HANDMADE TIN BUTTONS AND MUSL...

We moved two lengths from for better balance, but all of the beads are original.

This sheath is constructed of native tanned hide with red, yellow, light and dark blue trade beads and sinew sewn. Geometric designs down the front panel, finished with a partially b...

Constructed of native tanned hide with glass trade beads, horse hair and tin-cone tinklers. Provenance: Peter Gruber (Mandalay Entertainment) Private Collection, Aspen.

A horse bridle/headstall. Beaded with glass trade beads in typical Sioux geometric design.

Constructed of cloth, native-tanned hide, trade beads, trade shells, pigment and horse hair. Custom display stand is included.

The leggings are beaded around the cuffs with tepee motifs in dark and light blue with red on a white field, the hide is rubbed with yellow ochre.

Sioux strike-a-light from the early 20th century.

Constructed of native tanned hide, sewn with sinew and adorned with decorative glass trade beads and horse hair. A nomadic tribe, the Sioux are associated with areas of the Great Pla...

Exquisitely beaded mirror bag with a bold geometric or abstract motif.

The long fringed dress is made from chamois and adorned with colorful glass beads. She wears a pair of beaded moccasins and matching leggings.

Feathered Peyote Fan, 1920 Kiowa Glass trade beads, pheasant feathers, deerskin, dyed commercial thread, glass medallion.

Large graduated turquoise sliced stones with silver and coral beads.

This early Yea Indian weaving pillow is such unusual colors with the mustard ground and grey border.The Indians are all wearing turquoise beaded necklaces and the border is geometric...

Made of soft asymmetrically cut off-white leather with decorative stitching, antique United States 1904 "Indian Head" / Chief coin buttons and half dollar, and beaded strip and leath...

Blue silk decorates side flaps and are decorated further with white beads. The soles measure nine inches in length from toe to heel.

The necklace is 32" long and is stamped inside the largest bead. The necklace can be professionally polished if desired.

Although moccasins with fully beaded soles have erroneously been associated with burials, implying that the deceased would wear them only in death, historical photographs dispute thi...

The pot is a wonderfully crude vessel with the pottery shards adhered with some sort of cement or grout; around the bottom inside the foot there is also a very old application of a r...

Three strands of cotton cord that allowed the breastplate to be worn are strung with light blue glass trade beads, in an unusual oval form and press-decorated with a nubbed pattern. ...

The medal presented here is one of the last medals of its kind and was awarded in 1890 and had been placed in a woven string and decorated with colorful beads. The collage features t...

Both lithograph and arrowhead are framed to conservation standards, with acid-free mats, UV glass, and a custom-built black beaded frame. Framed Size: 29” H x 22” W x 2” D.

Both lithograph and arrowhead are framed to conservation standards, with acid-free mats, UV glass, and a custom-built black beaded frame. Framed dimensions: 29” H x 22” W x 2” D.

Both lithograph and arrowhead are framed to conservation standards, with acid-free mats, UV glass, and a custom-built black beaded frame.

This original hide fetish is in the form of a Turtle, sinew sewn with "salt and pepper" beadwork in numerous shades of opaque and translucent beads. There is a thin ring of beads mis...