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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 honors.
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