Die Plains-Und Prarieindianer Nordamerikas, Native American, George Catlin

A plains Indian roach “Headdress or Hair Ornament”. Custom display stand is included. Dimensions without stand measures 15 x 15 x 16 inches. Height with s...

Constructed of native tanned hide with trade beads and horse hair, this doll is wearing a traditional period dress and moccasins. A nomadic tribe, the Sioux territory included parts...

Antique 19th century Native American (Plains Indian) roach headdress made with dyed deer hair and porcupine guard hair on a u-shaped braided cloth with...

Antique Sioux (Native American/Plains Indian) Parfleche in a box form constructed of rawhide and intricately painted in an abstract design with hourglass and geometric motifs with natural pigments and red trade cloth. At the time this was created, the Sioux Indians were nomadic and are associated with vast areas of the Great Plains of the United States including present-day North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Montana. Authenticity is guaranteed. Box is in very good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Parfleches are rawhide containers which were fundamental to the Plains way of life. Functioning essentially as protective travelling suitcases, they enabled the nomadic tribes to effectively pursue buffalo herds and migrate between seasonal camps. So critical were they to a nomadic existence that over 40 tribes are known to have historically produced parfleches. Collectively, these tribes inhabited an area which encompassed the entirety of the Plains, as well as the parts of the Southwest, the Transmontane and Western Plateau regions. Parfleches were, out of necessity, robust and versatile objects. They were designed to carry and protect within them anything from medicinal bundles to seasonal clothing or food. In fact, it was because of the containers’ robusticity and variety that parfleches earned their name in the Anglo world. Derived from parer (to parry or turn aside) and fleche (arrow), the word parfleche was coined by 17th century French Canadian voyageurs and used to describe indigenous objects made from rawhide. Despite their common utilitarian function, parfleches served as one of the major mediums through which Plains Indian tribes could develop their long-standing tradition of painting. In fact, it is in large part due to the parfleche that tribal style emerged. Even though parfleche painting developed simultaneously with beading and weaving, painting as an artistic tradition held particular importance in tribal culture. Believed to have evolved from tattooing, it had always been used as a conduit through which tribal and individual identity could be expressed. As such, many tribeswomen were deeply committed, some even religiously, to decorating their parfleche either with incised or painted motifs that were significant to them and/or the tribe. For some tribes, such as the Cheyenne, the decorative processes which surrounded parfleche production were sacred. For others, it seems that their parfleche designs shared an interesting artistic dialogue with their beadwork, indicating a more casual exchange of design motifs. This particular relationship can be seen in Crow parfleche...

Museum quality Southern Arapaho (Hinono’ei) Native American Plains Indian leggings circa 1880s. Constructed of dyed native tanned hide with viridian green dye and ochre yellow embel...

A Classic Period (Pre-Reservation era) knife sheath created circa 1870 by a Crow (Plains Indian/Native American) artist. Constructed of Native tanned hid...

Original vintage travel poster for America issued by Qantas Australia's Overseas Airline in association with BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporatio...

Original vintage drink advertising poster for the iconic Irish stout beer with the caption: Guinness - Him Strong! Fun image of Native Americans in a canoe marked with a pint of Guin...

A Signed vibrantly colored Lithograph by Fritz Schroder, signed and dated in pencil, lower left corner. The lithograph is framed in a chrome frame, under glass. Fritz William Scholder V[1](October 6, 1937 – February 10, 2005) was a Native American artist...

Original antique magazine advertising poster for Licht und Schatten Jeden Freitag 20 pf. vierteljahrlich 2M25 / Light and Shadow every Friday costing 20 pf. weekly 2.25 quarterly featuring a great design by the German illustrator and graphic artist Emil Preetorius (1883-1973) of a man with black skeletal bony hands wearing a long red and yellow striped coat and holding a walking stick with his copy of the magazine tucked under his arm, a little white dog...

Original Dior linen backed “Eau Sauvage” poster. You are buying only linen backed poster, no frame. Only poster is 48" wide by 67" high.

Original vintage poster - Frau und Buch / Lady and a book - for an event on 22 March 1931 featuring a young lady with fashionable short hair reading a book and leaning her head again...