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Sioux Buffalo Horn Beaded & Quilled Headdress

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
Sioux Buffalo Horn Beaded & Quilled Headdress
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The lot features a fantastic Lakota Sioux Native American Indian attributed headdress most likely used by a medicine and dating from the turn of the Century. The headdress shows a Great American Bison Buffalo fur cape with two wonderful Buffalo horns and exceptional traditional geometric period correct beadwork and quillwork patterns. The headdress shows an Indian tanned buffalo hide showing mineral pigment dyes with glass trade seed beads in chalk white, semi-transparent dark blue, greasy yellow, red white hearts, Cheyenne pink, medium green, sky padre blue. Each Buffalo horn tip shows twisted braid hide fringe showing a red ocher pigment dye, fully beaded fringe rings, and fully porcupine quilled fringe along with green mineral dyed and braided human hair. Each side of the headdress along the front shows long beautiful trade ribbons in blue and red flanked by stripped otter or beaver fur fringe with a beaded finish. The rear of the headdress shows long Indian tanned hide fringe with the original Buffalo tail, old red trade clothe wrapped fringe, beadwork and several medicine pouches filled with human hair and other items. The inside of the headdress shows a saddlery harness leather framing piece and red ocher horned devil effigy. The entire piece shows very fine craftsmanship and is truly well made. The piece was supposedly looked over by a local Montana Indian expert and found to be an early and correct piece. The headdress measures 20 1/2" wide from the outside of each horn, 35" tall from the tip of the horn, to the bottom of the hair drop, and approximately 8 3/4" deep from the top of the hat, to the rim at the neck. Provenance: From a historic and early Cowboy and Native American artifact collection in Billings, Montana.