BW-424. Shoshone Beaded Buckskin Doll. Ex-Museum piece. 13”, stuffed with buffalo hair. Dress decorated with leather belt and glass trade beads, as are the moccasin boots. Trade bead eyes and mouth and a pricked pucker to indicate a nose. She has two ear adornments made of elks teeth. Hair is made from horsehair and is braided into two plaits tied with strip of crimson fabric. A pigment-painted fan is carried in the hand, and a parfleche knife sheath is at the waist. Great detail work here. Beautifully decorated. Great history and comes with a wonderful, detailed, signed letter from the Museum! Wind River Reservation in C. Wyoming. A child’s gift - not a tourist-trade item, ca. about 1930. Great condition with no holes or bead loss. Please call or e-mail for price and more details.
BW-420. Old Seneca Leather Knife Sheath. 6-1/2”. Very well-made and in great condition. From Erie County, New York. $350.
BW-425. Vintage Sioux Buffalo Toy. Ex-Museum piece. Approx. 6” long and 4” high. Made of buckskin; brain-tanned in the traditional manner. It is sinew-sewn and stuffed with buffalo hair. Decorated with glass trade beads in a horseshoe pattern over pigment-dyed buckskin, it has a buffalo fur head, a horsehair tail wound with wool floss, and feet and horns made of bird bones and talons. Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) Reservation circa about 1941. Great history and comes with a wonderful, detailed, signed letter from the Museum! Great condition with no holes or bead loss. SOLD
BW-418. Sioux Beaded and Quilled Turtle Fetish. It is a reservation made piece from the early 1900’s and is 4&3/4” long and 3” wide. Probably from the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Great condition with no holes or bead loss. $400.
BW-426. Vintage Sioux Buffalo Toy. Ex-Museum piece. Approx. 6” long and 4” high. Made of buckskin; brain-tanned in the traditional manner. It is sinew-sewn and stuffed with buffalo hair. Decorated with glass trade beads in a green and white checked pattern. It has a buffalo fur head, a horsehair tail tied with red stroud cloth, and feet and horns made of bird bones and talons. Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) Reservation circa about 1941. Great history and comes with a wonderful detailed, signed letter from the Museum! Great condition with no holes or bead loss. SOLD
BW-424. Shoshone Beaded Buckskin Doll. Ex-Museum piece. 13”, stuffed with buffalo hair. Dress decorated with leather belt and glass trade beads, as are the moccasin boots. Trade bead eyes and mouth and a pricked pucker to indicate a nose. She has two ear adornments made of elks teeth. Hair is made from horsehair and is braided into two plaits tied with strip of crimson fabric. A pigment-painted fan is carried in the hand, and a parfleche knife sheath is at the waist. Great detail work here. Beautifully decorated. Great history and comes with a wonderful, detailed, signed letter from the Museum! Wind River Reservation in C. Wyoming. A child’s gift - not a tourist-trade item, ca. about 1930. Great condition with no holes or bead loss. Please call or e-mail for price and more details.
BW-420. Old Seneca Leather Knife Sheath. 6-1/2”. Very well-made and in great condition. From Erie County, New York. $350.
BW-425. Vintage Sioux Buffalo Toy. Ex-Museum piece. Approx. 6” long and 4” high. Made of buckskin; brain-tanned in the traditional manner. It is sinew-sewn and stuffed with buffalo hair. Decorated with glass trade beads in a horseshoe pattern over pigment-dyed buckskin, it has a buffalo fur head, a horsehair tail wound with wool floss, and feet and horns made of bird bones and talons. Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) Reservation circa about 1941. Great history and comes with a wonderful, detailed, signed letter from the Museum! Great condition with no holes or bead loss. SOLD
BW-418. Sioux Beaded and Quilled Turtle Fetish. It is a reservation made piece from the early 1900’s and is 4&3/4” long and 3” wide. Probably from the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Great condition with no holes or bead loss. $400.
BW-426. Vintage Sioux Buffalo Toy. Ex-Museum piece. Approx. 6” long and 4” high. Made of buckskin; brain-tanned in the traditional manner. It is sinew-sewn and stuffed with buffalo hair. Decorated with glass trade beads in a green and white checked pattern. It has a buffalo fur head, a horsehair tail tied with red stroud cloth, and feet and horns made of bird bones and talons. Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) Reservation circa about 1941. Great history and comes with a wonderful detailed, signed letter from the Museum! Great condition with no holes or bead loss. SOLD
