Rate This Article Making Horn Cups Crazy Crow Craft Focus By Crazy Crow Trading Post ~ March 10, 2013 Making Horn Cups Crazy Crow Craft Focus By Crazy Crow Trading Post ~ March 10, 2013 Traditional Horn Cups A common item on the early frontier was the horn [read more]
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Rate This Article 2015 National Muzzleloading Rifle Association Western Kentucky University Seminar & Workshop Photo Credit: Simon A. Eugster, Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Pennsylvania Flintlock Rifle c1810–15 2015 National Muzzleloading Rifle Association Western Kentucky University Seminar & Workshop Credit Above Photo: Simon A. Eugster, [read more]
Rate This Article 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 [read more]
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Rate This Article 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 [read more]
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Rate This Article 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 [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.
