Mountain Man Rendezvous Clothing & Accessories for Beginners Getting Dressed Up for Your First Mountain Man Rendezvous! Mountain Man Rendezvous Clothing & Accessories for Beginners Getting Dressed Up for Your First Mountain Man Rendezvous! When getting started in Buckskinning and Mountain Man Era reenactment for rendezvous or black powder [read more]
Native American Dance Shawls By Crazy Crow Trading Post ~ July 8, 2014 Credit Above Photo: Tony Alter from Newport News, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Native American Dance Shawls By Crazy Crow Trading Post ~ July 8, 2014 Credit Above Photo: Tony Alter from Newport News, USA, [read more]
Deluxe Adjustable Wooden Bead Looms NATIVE AMERICAN BEADING LOOM USE Crazy Crow Trading Post Craft Focus ~ June 2009 Deluxe Adjustable Wooden Bead Looms NATIVE AMERICAN BEADING LOOM USE Crazy Crow Trading Post Craft Focus ~ June 2009 Building a Better Mousetrap . . . It's not often that [read more]
Typical Native American Tribal Bead Color Preferences By Crazy Crow Trading Post ~ June 20, 2012 Typical Native American Tribal Bead Color Preferences By Crazy Crow Trading Post ~ June 20, 2012 Sioux Women's Dress - Westphalian Museum of Natural History (Münster). Ra'ike (see [read more]
Seed Beads & Pony Beads - Mix or Match? By Crazy Crow Trading Post ~ December 2006 Photo Credit: The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Blackfeet or Lakota storage bags ca 1875-1885 Seed Beads & Pony Beads - Mix or Match? By Crazy Crow Trading [read more]
Selecting the Right Needles & Thread for Your Craft Project By Crazy Crow Trading Post ~ July 20, 2011 Selecting the Right Needles & Thread for Your Craft Project By Crazy Crow Trading Post ~ July 20, 2011 Needles & Thread for BeadingNeedle sizes are like bead sizes; the [read more]
American Indian Trade Blankets The Rise of Pendleton Woolen Mills as the Primary Trade Blanket of Contemporary Native Americans Credit Above Photo: Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons American Indian Trade Blankets The Rise of Pendleton Woolen Mills as the Primary Trade Blanket of Contemporary Native Americans [read more]
Throughout the period of the “Indian trade” in America, there were a number of both manufacturers and distributors of point blankets over the years. English made blankets were marketed by many different firms, including T. Eaton’s; Early’s of Witney; BCW; Globe; Gault’s; Mackay, Smith, Blair & Co. (Vancouver); Push, Tact & Principle; Simpsons; Hudson Bay Company as well as several others.
This article, A Visual History of Tradecloth, A Partial Record, is an enhancement of the original presentation at the Material Culture of the Plains, Prairie and Plateau Conference (MCPPP), National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 16-18, 2008. It is an attempt to show examples of the various types of trade cloth and their use by American Indian people over time.
Beads often reveal long-lost histories of countries, cultures, and people. For example, in November 2009, archaeologists with Atlanta’s Fernbank Museum of Natural History unearthed the first evidence of conquistador Hernando de Soto’s stay in Georgia, in the U.S., in 1540. The evidence used to make this determination is beads!
