For full detail (location, contacts, event detail, event web site, etc.), click the link at the end of the listings to go to powwow & rendezvous event pages on the Crazy Crow website.

Need to add an event? It's easy to do online at Crazy Crow. Submit your event early enough, and you'll be searchable in Google ® & other search engines as a result (2-3 month lead-time required).

Powwow Listings
Feb 7-9: Jicarilla Apache Day Celebration Pow-wow, Jicarilla Apache Reservation. Dulce, New Mexico
Feb 8: Livermore Valentines Pow Wow, Livermore, CA
Feb 8-9: Antelope Pow Wow, Mission, SD
Feb 14-15: 6th Annual New Hampshire Intertribal Council Pow Wow, Conway, NH
Feb 14-16: 1st Annual FSU Spring Powwow, Tallahassee, FL
Feb 14-16: Powwow Festival,
Feb 15-16: 6th Annual United San Antonio Powwow, San Antonio, TX
Feb 21-22: University of Arizona Pow Wow, Tucson, AZ
Feb 21-23: 7th Annual Vero Beach Intertribal Powwow, Vero Beach, FL 32960
Feb 21-23: 9th Annual Avi Kwa Ame Pow Wow, Laughlin, NV
Feb 22: Marysville Winter Pow Wow, Marysville, CA 95901
Feb 22-23 - Kwel Eng Sen's 8th Annual Native Student Pow Wow, Surrey, British Columbia
February 23 - 13th Annual Wacipi, Brookings, SD
Feb 28-Mar 2: American Indian Association's 11th Annual Traditional Peoples Gathering, Yucaipa, CA

Rendezvous Listings
Feb 2-10: Singing River Rendezvous, Bradenton, FL
Feb 8-9: Smokey Ridge Muzzleloaders 30th Annual "Frosted Fanny" Winter Rendezvous, Steamboat Rock, IA
Feb 10-17: 4th Annual 18th Century Trade Faire, Tallahassee, FL
Feb 15-17: Spring Mountain Free Trappers Winter Rendezvous, west from Las Vegas, NV

Events: Powwows & Rendezvous complete detail & links

New for 2003, Catalog 20 is in the mail!
Anyone who has purchased from Crazy Crow this past year should receive one soon. We've added 4 more pages to make room for over 50 new items this year. This 108-page full-color catalog contains hundreds of unique finished items and our complete line of Native American Indian and American Mountain Man crafts and craft supplies.

You'll find everything you need in beads and beading supplies, bone hairpipe, tubes and beads, a wide variety of feathers, leathers, furs, claws and such, authentic broadcloth and other period fabrics, Pendleton blankets and other products, fringe and ribbon, dozens of the finest patterns and kits, books, videos, recordings, camp goods, and so much more.

New items include: Real White-Edge Stroud Cloth in 4 colors, 7 new Pendleton Blanket designs, Indian Design Bedspreads, Early Fur Trade Striped Blankets, Russian Wool Shawls, Cedar Feather Boxes, Peyote Drumsticks, 8-sided Drum Frames, Brass Washer Brooches, Coin Design Conchos, Genuine Damascus Blades &Knives, Tin & Copperware:Coffee Pot, Tea Kettle, Bowls, Rum Cup & Paul Revere Lantern; Iron Campware:Spatula; 12 fine new Solingen folding Knives & Blades, 11 Hand-Forged Knives by our blacksmith, 3 Buffalo Rawhide Knife Sheaths, 8 new books and lots more!!

Order Catalog 20 online

8-page, full-color flyer - Introducing new and seasonal items, and offering many popular items on sale.

New items include:
* American Tradition Magazine Reprints
* Native American Pocket Knives
* Books: Uncommon Legacies, Encyclopedia of Native, Tribes of North America. Highlanders
* Indian Way CD

Sale items include:
* Willow Buckskin
* 14 Popular Craft & Dance Video Instructional Tapes
* Choker Kits & Moccasin Kits
* Porcupine Quills & Quillwork Kits
* Simulated Sinew, Rabbit Skins, Horsehair
* Imported Rossettes
* Floral Design Wool Shawls
* Brass Sequins, Tin, Aluminum & Brass Cones
* Hudson Bay Beavertail Dagger
* Clip Point Bowie Knife
* Northern Plains Dagger
* Green River Blades
* Lance Heads
* Pewter Pendants, Padre Beads
* Lantern Holder
* ... and more.

New Crow Calls Flyer

Beginning any craft project, especially if it is your first time working on a particular item, requires some patience - and a plan.

* Is your craftwork representative of contemporary design, or do you have a particular 'period' in mind?
* Will your project reflect some general 'Native American' look, or is there a specific tribal design to be achieved?
* Do you have instructions on the materials needed and assembly techniques required?

The purpose of Crazy Crow Trading Post's Craft Focus pages is to provide a starting point in your research, to save you time and improve your chances of finding the information and materials you need to do it right the first time.

February Craft Theme: Quillwork
Quillwork is perhaps the oldest form of embroidery used by Native Americans. Quills were folded, twisted, wrapped, plaited and sewn using a wide range of techniques to decorate articles of clothing, bags, knife sheaths, baskets, wooden handles and pipe stems. Porcupine quills were used for decorative work on clothing until approximately 1850 when the trade and application of glass beads replaced quills as the decoration of choice.

Interest in quillwork has steadily risen in recent years, as has interest in traditional regalia. In addition to the online resources provided in this Craft Focus issue, we will be creating quillwork articles that will be found on the Crazy Crow website in the near future.

This is our fourth eNews edition, and our third Craft Focus page. We continue to grow our online archive, adding to all topics as more resources are made available on the Web.

We Report, You Decide . . .
. . as a popular cable new channel likes to say. The first section of these Craft Focus pages will be online links and resources. These are not stale, broken links, but the result of intense, current searches. That doesn't mean we found everything that is relevant, but we sure tried! In many cases, we deliver you to websites that may point you to one of our competitors. In other cases, we will send you to a site that recommends a competitor (usually because, heaven forbid, they don't know about us). Our point is to give you the best information we can so that when all is said and done, you can decide what you need and where to get it.

This is a new and evolving process, and your comments, corrections and contributions are welcomed. Do you have some great craft tips to pass along, digital photos to share, an online resource we've missed? If so please email them to us at: craftfocus@crazycrow.com.

Craft Focus: Quillwork Web Page

Made just like the original, high quality wool broadcloth produced in the area of Stroud, England in the 1700s & 1800s for trade with Native Americans. This material has an approx. 1" wide, white selvedge or "Saved List", running down both edges. The un-dyed edge has a "sawtooth" appearance created by the method used of saving the edges from the dye.

Highly desirable for early style garments and blankets, made in 54" width just like the original! Available in red, yellow, green & navy.   Note: 1 Meter = 39 inches

Item No. Color
3602-100-081 Scarlet
3602-100-146 Yellow
3602-100-218 Verdigris Green
3602-100-265 Navy Blue

1/2 Meter .. $35.70
1 Meter .. $$65.00
1 Meter .. $62.00 (3+ meters)

Clothing, Materials & Accessories Products

Points West is a quarterly distribution to Buffalo Bill Historical Center members. Their online articles, selected from the Points West print publications, cover a broad range of subjects relating to the vast collections, exhibitions, programs, and activities of the Historical Center.

Points West has had a number of contributors over the years. Their online archive (1994 to present) represents a range of topics related to our Western heritage, both Native American and Frontiersman. Stories are well-written, interesting and illustrated. The archive is organized by issue and by "field of interest".

Articles of particular interest include:
* Frontier Photographers
* Native American Photography After the End of the Frontier
* Buffalo and The People
* Catlin Showed Us
* Sacred Lands
* Multiple Influences: Compelling Issues Contemporary Indian Art
* The Outside Looking In: Photographs of Native America
* Recording the Spirit of a Culture
* Riding With Power (horse paint)
* Plains Indian Museum: A Reinterpretation
* About Crow Indian Horses
* Powwow: The Evolving Tradition of Dance in Plains Indian Cultures
* Cheyenne Dog Soldiers
* Riders of the Northern Plains and Plateau Regions
* Ceremonial Pipes in the Plains Indian Museum
* The Buffalo People

Points West Online Archive

The art of Antoine Tzapoff represents a return to ethnological and historical realism akin to the work of Carl Bodmer and George Catlin. Concentrating primarily on the Plains, Prairie and Eastern Woodlands, his attention to detail and mastery of the subject make his portraits come alive in the specific time period of the individual culture that he portrays. In addition to 88 of Tzapoff's finest paintings, this volume features over 150 examples of the finest artifacts from private collections in both Europe and the U.S., including war shirts, leggings, dresses, moccasins, pipe bags, strke-a-lite pouches, knife sheaths, tomahawks, bows & arrows, trade silver, cradles, and many others. This is a fantastic book for both the craftsman and art lover. This oversize (9" x 12") volume contains 173 pages with hundreds of photos, all in vivid, full color.
4101-115-237 ....... $65.00

New Products for 2003

Come See Us in Tucson: February 6 - 14

CCTP will be attending the annual Gem Show in Tucson, Arizona.

Show Times: February 6 - 14
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Location: Booth #s 807 & 809 - G&LW Holidome, Holiday Inn Palo Verde, 4550 Palo Verde Road.

VISIT OUR BOOTH FOR SHOW SPECIALS!