ABOUT THE HEADRESS / WAR BONNET |
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PLAINS FEATHERED HEADDRESS
ABOUT OUR HEADDRESSES 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/old time cotton calico 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 buffalo wool, 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. Tin cones are not crimped as you see on many replicas. This is not correct.
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about our headdresses / war bonnets SEE BELOW |
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caps - (buckskin) deer, elk, etc. caps covered with otter, buffalo, rabbit, feathers, etc glass beads ermine, calico, leather drops hand wrapped feathers hand painted feathers coup dots made from gypsum, fur, buckskin, etc calico trade cloth clay paints headdresses can be aged to look old horse hair ermine / weasel |
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NATIVE ARTS Trading
"Finella Lodge"
Drumtochty,
by Auchenblae, Aberdeenshire AB30 1TR
Scotland
Tel: +44 (0)1561 320914 E-mail: cochise@nativeartstrading.com MEMBERS OF IACA (Indian Arts & Crafts Association) © Native Arts Trading Limited 2012- cochise@naiveartstrading.com |