National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum ( Oklahoma City ). Lakota saddle cover ( ca. 1920 ) - Crazy Crow Trading Post
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum ( Oklahoma City ). Lakota saddle cover ( ca. 1920 ) - Crazy Crow Trading Post

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American Indian Beading & Quillwork Articles

Credit Above Photo: Wolfgang Sauber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

American Indian Beading & Quillwork Articles

Credit Above Photo: Noahedits, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Crazy Crow Trading Post offers many articles, both of original research and republications (with permission) on topics concerning making American Indian style beadwork or porcupine quillwork that you would find or use at a rendezvous or historic reenactment or powwow. Articles include: The Venetian Bead Story by Peter Francis Jr, Bone Hairpipe History: From Shell to Bone, Trade Bead Migration into North America, Seed Bead History and Use by Native American Tribes, Porcupine Quillwork Craft Focus, Native American Tribal Bead Color Preference, Seed Beads & Pony Beads – Mix or Match?, and more.

Crazy Crow Articles

Crazy Crow Trading Post - January-February 2026 Crow Calls Sale

Current Crow Calls Sale
January – February

SAVE 10%-25% on popular powwow, rendezvous, historic reenactor, bead & leather crafter supplies. Crazy Crow is starting out the New Year with savings on many popular craft supply items like Plains Hard Sole Moccasin Kits, Chainette Spool and Pre-Cut 14 & 18 inch Fringe, Flat Spool Fringe, as well as big savings on very popular items like most types of our brass beads, artificial sinew, bone hair pipes, Peyote Kettles and Drum Covers, select hand-made Frontier Knives, and engraved brass sleigh bells. Of course you can order everything online 24×7.

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