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 May-June 2025 Crow Calls Sale

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May – June

SAVE 10%-25% on on popular powwow, rendezvous, historic reenactor, bead & leather crafter supplies. Powwow, Rendezvous, and Reenactment season is here! Save on many of our like 100% Wool Sawtooth Edge Stroud Cloth, Northern Style Domed Conchos in German Silver, Brass or Copper; Bison Splits Leather, Readymade Warbonnets, Popular Frontier Knives, Shell Discs & Hearts up to 3″; Strikers, Green River Knife Blades; Beading, Sharps & Glovers Needles & so much more!

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