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Native American Trade Painted Rawhide Parfleche Pouches
Native American bags are generally of two different styles--soft pouches made with tanned animal hides and parfleche pouches made of stiff rawhide. Our parfleche pouches are made with elk or buffalo rawhide and beautifully trade painted in traditional tribal colors and designs.
These authentic, museum quality replications are created by Montana artist, John Yashinski with sincere respect to the materials, techniques, and traditions of Native American crafts.
|  Lakota 1880 Small Parfleche Pouch Stiff buffalo rawhide pouch with colorful trade paint design. Pouch laced with antelope rawhide over 1940's shirt wool. Braintan deer hide straps, aged patina. Ca 1860's green glass Chinese "Padre" bead on strap. Pouch: 3 3/4" x 3 3/4"
| | |  Lakota 1880 Medium Parfleche Pouch The pouch is stiff elk rawhide bordered with faded blanket wool trim and decorated with trade and clay paints. The braintan deerhide strap is highlighted by a dark blue ca 1900 Czech glass bead.
The colors are traditional Lakota muted shades of the 1880's. The painted crosshatch design center box symbolizes a camp, and the four red dots can represent either the 4 directions of the world or 4 seasons spent in one camp.
Aged patinas. 5" x 5"
| | |  Hunkpapa Sioux 1880 Large Parfleche Pouch This incredible Native American parfleche pouch is a museum quality replication of an actual parfleche pouch from Sitting Bull's band of the 1880's. The original is kept in a private collection in Berlin, Germany.
Painted with traditional Sioux colors, the green and yellow triangles represent teepees or camps in summer; the blue center diamond represents a winter camp. The blue border symbolizes the boundaries of the world.
Stiff elk rawhide, braintan deer hide lace and strap with antique blue trade beads, clay and trade paint, old wool trim, aged patina. 8" x 8"
| | |  Crow 1880 Native American Buffalo Rawhide Parfleche PouchMade with thick buffalo rawhide and decorated with authentic clay and trade paints, this Crow 1890 Parfleche Pouch replication is bordered with pieces of old faded wool trim and accented by a cobalt blue ca 1860 Chinese glass bead on the strap and two ca 1860 faceted blue beads on the dangles. The strap and tie are braintan deer hide.
Among the Montana Crow people, small cases with wool trim were used to carry personal sacred items, which sometimes included rock medicine, an oddly shaped decorated rock or pebble. The painted design on this pouch represents a teepee or camp, and the green color paint is symbolic of the summer season.
In Native American tradition, a person may possess a number of sacred containers such as this, each one with a different design and color palette depending on how they one feels directed by spirit. Inside this bag is a buffalo hair wrap to be used for storing your own personal items if you so choose.
The design of his particular Native American Parfleche Pouch replicates that of an original Crow pouch collected in 1923 by William Wildschut in 1923 from the Crow in Billings, Montana.
Size: pouch 5” x 6”
| | |  Crow 1850’s Native American Medicine Bundle Parfleche CaseAuthentically hand crafted from buffalo rawhide, this Native American medicine bundle parfleche case replication is beautifully decorated with a traditional design using actual green clay and genuine Chinese red vermillion trade paint. It features a braintan deer hide fringe accent sewn with buffalo sinew over 1940’s aged, faded wool. The strap and tie thong are buffalo rawhide. The patinas are aged for authenticity.
Native American parfleche pouches were often used to carry medicines, sacred items and ritual objects. Sometimes these cases were specially designed and painted with sacred designs and images interpreted from dreams or visions with meaning specific to the owner.
Pouch Size: 10” x 6”
| | |  Crow 1850’s Native American Incised Sacred Object Parfleche PouchThis amazing Native American parfleche pouch replication is authentically made from young Montana buffalo epidermal brown rawhide, incised (lightly engraved) with a traditional Crow design. Incised Crow cases such as this are very rare, as they were made only by the Crow people prior to 1850. The unique design on the frontal piece has its own special significance: the teepee triangles represent encampments, and the dots signify trails taken to the camps.
This large parfleche pouch is accented with a naturally sun faded, hand dyed stroud wool edging, stroud wool being a common 19th century trade item with Native American Plains tribes.
The large bead on the tie is a Venetian glass ca 1870 “eye” bead, commonly used by Crow people on rock medicine bundles as a gift or offering to the power of the bundle.
Pouch Size: 9” x 9”
| | |  Crow 1890 Native American Buffalo Rawhide Fringed Parfleche PouchMade with thick buffalo rawhide and decorated with authentic clay and trade paints, this Crow 1890 Parfleche Pouch replication is framed with a heavy braintan elk hide fringe and accented with deep blue ca 1890-1920 Czech glass Prosser beads. The lace, strap, and tie thong are braintan deer hide.
Among the Montana Crow people, heavily fringed cases like this one were used to carry bundles of sacred medicine/spirit items, including rock medicine, an oddly shaped pebble wrapped in animal hide and decorated with beads and fringe. The painted design on this pouch represents a teepee or camp, and the medicine spirit inside the bag was to protect the encampment.
In Native American tradition, a person might have several sacred containers such as this, each one painted with a different design according to how they are moved by the spirit. Inside this bag is a buffalo hair wrap to be used in storing your own personal items if you choose to do so.
Size: pouch alone 5” x 6”, fringe sections are 9” in length
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