Headdress / War Bonnet Details
Hand beaded (lazy stitch) brow band. All large feathers are hand wrapped and hand painted with trade cloth/flannel or other material. The preferred color in the old days was red or yellow Feathers are decorated with horsehair or breath feathers on tips of feathers. We also utilise clay paints. Each headdress is antiqued to look old (if required).
Handmade hide skullcaps with either rabbit skin or otter, horse hair, ribbon or feather side drops, aged tin cones, hawk bells and dance bells, etc.
Traditional colored hand beaded brow bands (hand beaded - lazy stitched) - not loom beaded.
All headdresses are custom made to order
All headdresses are custom made to order
Headdresses: $1,175 (USD) includes shipping
Headdresses with Buffalo Horns: $1,3655 (USD) includes shipping
Single Trailers: $2,340 (USD) includes shipping
Double Trailers: $3,499 (USD) includes shipping
please contact us for War Bonnet / Headdress Cylinder cases
Sharon is Cherokee (not registered with the Cherokee Nation)
REPLICA OF Catalogue No. E357469 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE custom made for a collector in the States
HEADDRESS MADE FOR THE MIRAMAX FILM "FINDING NEVERLAND" WORN BY JOHNNY DEPP
Nominated for Best Costumes
THE 77th ACADEMY AWARDS
February 27th 2005
A HEADDRESS LIKE THIS EXAMPLE WAS COMMISIONED BY STAGE ONE
- a nationally acclaimed professional theatre in Louisville Kentucky
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NATIVE ARTS TRADING"Finella Lodge"Drumtochty,by Auchenblae, Aberdeenshire AB30 1TRMEMBERS OF IACA (Indian Arts & Crafts Association)
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Each feather has been hand painted and the feathers have been hand wrapped with red calico feather wraps, beaded lazy stitch head band and beaded rosettes, calico and full ermine drops, Handmade skull cap with brown rabbit skin, red plumes and horse hair, clay pigment paints. The headdress has also been aged to look old
