Plains Indian Trailer Headdress is a mixed media by Native Arts Trading which was uploaded on April 19th, 2013.
Plains Indian Trailer Headdress
This is a replica of Catalogue No. E357469 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE custom made for a collector in Ohio.... more
Title
Plains Indian Trailer Headdress
Artist
Native Arts Trading
Medium
Mixed Media - Mixed
Description
This is a replica of Catalogue No. E357469 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE custom made for a collector in Ohio.
All of our headdresses are hand beaded (lazy stitch or applique� brow bands in traditional colors - not loom beaded.
All feathers are hand wrapped and hand painted with trade cloth/flannel or other material. The preferred color in the old days was red or yellow Feathers are decorated with horse hair, breath feathers, gypsum, buckskin/elk or fur on tips of feathers. We also utilize clay paints. Each headdress is antiqued to look old (if required).
Deer skin or Elk skullcaps are covered with rabbit skin, otter, other fur or feathers - and applied in various ways. Headdresses are adorned with buffalo hair, ribbon, ermine, quill work, braided leather, bead work, feather side drops, aged tin cones, hawk bells and dance bells, etc.
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April 19th, 2013
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