c. 1870’s

Arapaho knife sheath made with a rawhide liner. Exterior is soft hide, beaded on one side in a green background with geometric design in yellow, red, dark and light blue seed beads. Some beads missing.

Includes a period American Cutlery Co. knife with a wooden handle embellished with lead inlay.

Ex: James Waste Collection

Size: Sheath 9"1/2, Knife 10"5/8

$ 3,700.00

c. 19th Century

Classic Crow beaded design on buffalo hide. Bag itself lined on inside with old muslin. Hawk bells and eight tin cone drops. 

26" long including fringe, 6" wide

$24,500.00

c. 1890-1900

A classic Sioux Strike a lite bag made of commercial leather. Front and side beaded in red, green blue white and pink seed beads with cut metal beads.

Drops of leather with blue and green tube beads. Tin cones on ends of drops. Black, yellow and white trade beads on the back. Sinew sewn. Excellent condition.

Size:bag only 6" x 4". Drops an add'l 5" length

$ 2,800.00

c. 1900

Possible or Tipi Bags were used by the Plains Indians to transport personal items while crossing the Great Plains. They were also used within the tipi. Made of brain tanned deerskin these bags are heavily beaded with seed beads and are decorated with tin cones and horsehair.

Sold with custom wall mounts

Size 20" x 12"

$ 11,500.00

c. 1880

White beaded background with green, navy and red seed beads. Large red and green trade beads on fringe. Design repeated on verso.

39" long, 6" wide

$19,500.00

c. 1870

Blackfeet pouch, blue beads with morning star on center of flap. Flap trimmed with brass beads on each side.

6 ¾" x 6 ¼"

$7,000.00

c. 1880

A fine miniature tobacco bag with morning star bead design and typical bead work on verso.  Quilled drop and fringe.  

12" long including fringe, 2 3/4 " wide

$3,300.00

c. 1885

An exceptional Mescalero Apache Beaded Bag on native brain tanned deerskin and using ten seed bead colors in a striking geometric design. With 57 tin cones and four beaded drops. Excellent condition.

10" long without drops, 5-1/8" wide

$4,200.00

c. 1875

A classic bar design with long fringe, four of which are braided with brass trade beads attached. Scalloped edge on top.

30" long w/fringe x 6 1/8" wide

$ 17,500.00

c. 1870

A rare matched pair of Cheyenne tipi bags in extraordinary condition. Beaded on front and sides. All sinew sewn on buffalo calf hide.

14" long, 21" wide

$29,500.00

c. 1900-1910

A beautiful hide case with typical Cheyenne multicolored beading on a white background. Top flap with one large central cross and four smaller crosses. The bag panel is beaded with a central diamond design flanked with smaller devices. On commercial leather, sewn sewn.

length: 24", 7 3/4" wide

$3,200.00

c. 1875

A beautiful Crow pouch with classic Crow floral bead work.

9 1/2" long (pouch with fringe),  5" wide.

$6,000.00

c. 19th Century

Northern Plains strike-a-lite pouch beaded on both sides and beaded fringe,

7 1/2 " long including fringe, 3" wide

$2,200.00

c. 1880

Yellow ochre dyed body, typical Cheyenne geometric design on face and verso.  Two drops, beaded on edges, fringed on top.  

24" long, 5" wide

$12,000.00

c. 1870-1880

An exceptional buffalo hide rifle case and strap. Beaded on both sides with seed beads and very small cut seed beads in floral patterns. Sinew sewn.

39" long x 12" (including fringe)

$8,500.00

c. 1870's

Cheyenne Possible Bag, native tanned hide, classic Cheyenne beaded bar design on both ends, tin cones with yellow dyed horse hair.

Size: 17" x 15" x 6"

$ 5,800.00

c. 19th Century

The best Ute Beaded Tail Bag we have had in many years.  Classic Ute beadwork in very pleasing colors. Collected in 1894 at Lame Deer, Montana by Frederick Rueping, owner of the Rueping Leather Co., who traveled the Dakotas and Montana as a hide buyer during the last quarter of the 19th century. Old museum No. on flap. Excellent collection history. 

20" long with fringe, 5" wide

$14,500.00

c. 1880

Very fine Strike a Lite pouch. Beaded on both sides. One side w/ human form. Strike a Lite includes 4 drops.

6 1/4 "long ,  3  3/4 in. wide

$7,000.00

c. 19th Century

Ute paint pouch, fully beaded on each side with brass trade bead belt keeper.

11" overall length, 1 3/4"

$3,800.00

19th c.

A very nice child's artifact, quite rare. On buffalo.

6 3/4" x 3" (extended).

$ 1,500.00

Late 19th Century

Cheyenne/Arapaho tobacco bag Late 19th Century. Tobacco bag on buffalo hide.  Geometric bead design and long twisted fringe.  33 by 6 1/2 including fringe.  Old collection tag.

overall length: 34"

$ 12,000.00

c. 1890-1900

A Possible or Tipi Bag likely from the Dakota Sioux People. Made of Buffalo hide with 10 rows of wrapped quill work along the front of the bag. The two sides are beaded with blue, green, red white and pink seed beads and sinew sewn. Tin cones with horse hair and feathers decorate the bag.

height: 11", width: 19"

SOLD

c. 1870's

Lakota or Northern Cheyenne beaded strip on buckskin. Rondels with blue, red, yellow and green beads. Boxed bar design pattern in red, blue, green and dark blue beads. All sinew sewn.

Ex. Fritz Scholder Collection.

Size: 51" l x 4.5" w

SOLD

c.1880

A beautiful blanket strip featuring red, green, blue and white beadwork and cut red beads. All sinew sewn on buffalo hide.

59" long, 4" wide

SOLD

c. 1850-1870

An early Cheyenne Blanket Strip on a Pre-Hudson's Bay Company style blanket..This English wool blanket is edge trimmed in red cotton and red silk, which denotes Osage ownership. The large Cheyenne Blanket strip dates to the 1850-70's. White seed beads, deep blue, deep red and medium blue beads are used in a early and simple arrangement.

Has been in the same collection for the last 30 years.

71" wide by 62" tall, 64" in length

beaded panel measure 6 3/4" wide and the roundels 7 1/4" in diameter

Sold

c. 1880

A Great Lakes (Ojibwa, Winnebago?) carrying bag in very fine condition. Made of smoked moose hide and beaded with opaque and transparent seed beads as well as facet cut steel beads. the inside of the flap is lined with cotton calico fabric.

11" wide,  10" tall (not incl. fringe)

$ 3,600.00

c. last quarter 19th C.

A very fine Sioux Rifle Case in excellent condition. Seed beaded panels with a white background and triangular design elements done with greasy yellow, green, pale blue and red beads, sinew sewn. Made for a Winchester 76 or 73 rifle. Sinew sewn.

43” long, not including fringe.
8 ¾” wide at the throat

SOLD

c. 1880

A Sioux saddle blanket on canvas backing with Morning Star designs.. Sinew beaded in red white hearts, blue, green, white and steel cut seed beads. Excellent condition.

size: 28" w, 75" length.

SOLD

c. 1870

Beautiful example of a Cheyenne Mirror Bag, beaded on front and back. Mounted on buffalo hide. Very small bead work.

17" long, 3 1/2" wide including fringe

SOLD

c. 1880

A Shoshone woman's belt on hide in excellent condition. Beaded with red white hearts, greasy yellow, blue, dark blue, and dark green seed beads. The back of the panel is lined with cotton ticking.

38" in length, 3" in width

SOLD

c. 1870

A Cheyenne/Arapaho tobacco war bag made of buffalo hide, fifteen quill strips with fringe at base.

16" long, 3 1/4" wide

SOLD

c. 1875

A very fine Crow Rifle Case all sinew sewn. Classic Crow bead patterns. Red trade cloth.

49" long including fringe. 

$27,500.00

c. 1880

Northern Plains Blanket Strip. A traditional beaded blanket strip on hide. Beaded with seed beads in blue, green and red white hearts, all sinew sewn.

Length: 59.5" long x 4.00" wide

$5,600.00