HEADDRESSES / WAR BONNETS
SINGLE & DOUBLE TRAILER HEADDRESSES
Native American War Bonnets / Headdresses of the Plains Indian
Plains Headdress/ War Bonnet
All headdresses are custom made to order
Headdresses: $1,199 (USD)
Headdresses with Buffalo Horns: $1,399(USD)
Single Trailers: $2,385 (USD)
Double Trailers: start at $2,849 (USD)
Buffalo Headdresses
Replica single trailer headdress inspired by Hunkpapa Lakota headdress, North Dakota, worn by Chief Rain in the Face, 1884-85
Custom made for a client in the States
calico / red trade cloth trailer, hand dyed horse hair with clay paints, fur, buffalo hair, hawk bells, ermine, sinew, etc.
REPLICA OF Catalogue No. E357469 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE custom made for a collector in the States
This double trailer headdress was $3400
see also...
Johnny Depp wearing one of our headdresses
HEADDRESS MADE FOR THE MIRAMAX FILM "FINDING NEVERLAND"
Click here for further headdresses & clothing that featured in the film
All of our headdresses are hand beaded (lazy stitch or applique’ brow bands in traditional colors - not loom beaded.
All 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 horse hair, breath feathers, gypsum, buckskin/elk or fur on tips of feathers. We also utilize clay paints. Each headdress is antiqued to look old (if required).
Deer skin or Elk skullcaps are covered with rabbit skin, otter, other fur or feathers - and applied in various ways. Headdresses are adorned with buffalo hair, ribbon, ermine, quill work, braided leather, bead work, feather side drops, aged tin cones, hawk bells and dance bells, etc.
This replica of Iron Tail's double trailer war bonnet is in a private collection in the States
Iron Tail (or Cinte Muzza) an Oglala Sioux - fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He also performed with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show during the 1890's and with the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West show from 1913 to 1916. He died of pneumonia on May 28, 1916 while traveling to his homeland, the hills of South Dakota. Iron Tail was one of three models for the Indian Head nickel.
Replica C.1890. Lemhi Shoshone headdress (from the Lemhi County Historical Museum - Salmon Idaho)
Applique' beaded brow band with traditional mountain design. This headdress has an unusual swept-back style for this tribe.
The cap is covered with bison fur (buffalo), gypsum coup dots, natural earth clay paints used to dye feather fluffs, deer skin cap, sinew feather wraps and horse hair.
