NAT IVE AMERICAN HEADDRESS / WAR BONNETS of the Plains Indian / Apache

(PLAINS INDIAN & OTHER TRIBAL HEADDRESSES) SINGLE & DOUBLE TRAILER HEADDRESS, SPLIT HORN, DOG SOLDIER, PORKY ROACHES, MEDICINE MAN, HAIR ORNAMENTS, BUFFALO FUR HEADDRESSES, & OTHER NATIVE AMERICAN HEADDRESSES, ETC.

our headdresses were featured in the Nov/Dec 2010 issue of Native Peoples

Based on a museum headdress - Sioux Headdress (replica).

The Plains Headdress / War Bonnet

All headdresses are custom made to order

Headdresses / bonnets from: $1399

Headdresses with Buffalo Horns from: $1499

Single Trailers from: $2699

Double Trailers from: $3095

Buffalo headdress from $2084

Blackfoot / Northern Plains Stand-up Bonnet - replica 1880

Quills, wool, ermine, yarn, rawhide, clay paints, horse hair, hackles, stroud cloth, etc

see other photograph (click here)

Johnny Depp wearing one of our headdresses

HEADDRESS MADE FOR THE MIRAMAX FILM "FINDING NEVERLAND"

This replica was inspired by Iron Tail's trailer war bonnet

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.

This headdress also featured in the film "Hyde Park on Hudson" (2012) starring Bill Murray. The headdress was worn by Jonathan Brewer playing the part of Ish-ti-opi

Sioux Headdress (right)

lazy stitch beadwork, deer skin cap, buffalo wool on cap, trade cloth, antelope, studs, ermine, calico, etc.

made for a client in Montana

REPLICA OF Catalogue No. E357469 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE custom made for a collector in the States (right)

This double trailer headdress was $3695

Buffalo Horn Headdress $2084

see buffalo horn / split horn headdresses

This headdress was custom made for a private collector living in Finland

Hunkpapa Lakota headdress Custom made for a client in the States

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.

Replica single trailer headdress inspired by Hunkpapa Lakota headdress, North Dakota, worn by Chief Rain in the Face, 1884-85 (right)

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.