Vintage Native American Leather Hide Shoulder Bag Satchel Crossbody Purse

Lot of 16 antique Native American Skookum dolls featuring men, women, children and babies wearing traditional wool clothing with beaded accents, headdresses and tapestry blankets. ...

Antique Native American beaded necklace crafted with red and orange translucent alternating bakelite and floral silver tone bea...

Vintage Native American style medicine bag or pouch fashioned out of the shell of a box turtle and buckskin leather, decorated around the edge with red and green beads and buttons made out of “Indian Head” / Buffalo nickels...

Lot of five late 20th century native Southwestern folk art hand painted gourds. Variety of colors and pattern motifs including a snake and a Pueblo Bird. T...

Vintage Native American / Navajo seed bead hair clip / bow / barrette featuring a colorful floral theme with white, red, yellow, green, and blue. Purchased in the 1960s-1970s at Gil...

Vintage circa 1980s Judith Leiber black patent leather purse accented with multi-color jeweled charms along the clamshell clasp, featuring ...

This Native American leather screen is beautifully made. Leather is stretched similar to a tanning rack, and hung on a wood easel. Please confirm location NY or NJ

This pair of 19th century antique moccasins date to circa 1880 and are constructed of native tanned hide and sewn with glass trade beads in colors of...

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...

Colorful Plateau cornhusk sally bag with geometric designs of green, blue and red linen. Canvas reinforced. Period: First quarter of the 20th century Origin: Plateau Size: 6" D x 10...

Native American pipe bag. Original catlinite pipe bowl and stem. Comes in a buffalo hide pouch. Pipe bag and attached early Canadian silver trade brooch and elk ivories. Circa 1780-...

Native American Pueblo Indian drum. Featuring blackened stretched hide on top and bottom. Sides with red strip across center framed my complementar...