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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.
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- 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 or other community-based
service honors.
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