Traditional Crafts

There are as many different traditional crafts as there are traditional American Indian Nations, so the assortment is immense.  Our selection changes regularly, depending on availability.  Contact us for the current selection, or if you are looking for something special.  





  • Dream Catchers -- in leather wrapped hoops and red willow hoops.  We buy from Apache, Navajo, Lakota and Ojibway artists regularly.
  • Medicine Wheels -- Decorated with beads or quillwork and bone hairpipe.  Some of these are intricately handpainted and some are very plain.  Most are Lakota, Ojibway or Navajo made.
  • Replica Weapons -- Kiva features replica weapons such as long bows, buffalo lances, knives and war clubs, made by a variety of American Indian artists.  Our favorite is Red Hawk, a Mohawk artist who usually works in Northern Plains style.
  • Beaded & Quilled Possibles Bags -- We stock a variety of deerskin bags, strike-a-light pouches, belt pouches, paint bags and medicine pouches.  These are usually beaded or quilled and are made by living Lakota, Oneida, Shoshone, Blackfeet or Salish & Kootenai artists.  Click here for more information
  • Handmade Deerskin Shirts and Traditional Decorative Items -- Kiva is proud to offer the custom work of Dakota, Navajo and Pueblo artists who create wondeful wearable objects and clothing.  Beaded deerskin, fringed war shirts, hairpirpe chokers and breastplates, etc.  Call for current inventory.
  • Pipes & Calumets -- We buy pipes regularly from Ojibway, Yankton Sioux (Dakota), Cherokee and Arapaho artists.  Some are carved in Pipestone - the red stone from Minnesota also called Catlinite.  This stone is considered sacred by many American Indian Nations, and is only used in carving pipes and animal fetish carvings.  We also have pipes carved in hard Kentucky steatitie or soapstone, which is the traditional material for pipes made in the Southeastern Nations.  Antler pipes, for pleasure smoking, are carved often in antler or bone.
  • Honors & Medicine Shields -- Kiva usually has two or three good examples of the heraldic honors shield.  These are made from rawhide, or buffalo hump hide stretched over a wooden hoop and then decorated with images and symbols from dreams and visions quests.  They represent the spirit of the owner, and the owner's lifetime achievements, spirit guides and helpers.  They are displayed prominently in or outside the lodge like a coat of arms would be displayed, to let passersby see the nature of the people who are inside.  They are also worn on the saddle, or the back as a mark of war honors.


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