Purses & Bags

This medicine bag is hand made by Oglala Lakota artist Kevin Fast Horse. He uses dyed commercially tanned red leather to make the bag and decorates it with tiny cow bells as well as Czech beads in yellow, topaz, green, orange, and black to create the...

Local Oglala Lakota Nation member Brenda DuBray beads this beautiful bag with glass beads creating a mesmerizing pattern.  Brenda creates the purse with a zippered closure to help secure your personal items and adds a long beaded shoulder strap...

Native American artist Brenda DuBray, Oglala Lakota Nation member, hand beads this purse with glass beads. Her patterns paired with the Pendleton blanket patterns makes a lovely combination.  Brenda adds a long beaded shoulder strap, lines the...

Native American beadwork artist Brenda DuBray, Oglala Lakota Nation member, creates this purse with the user in mind. There’s a long shoulder, a zipper closure to help keep your personal items secured. Brenda lines the inside of the bag with a...

Hand beaded by local Oglala Lakota Nation member Brenda DuBray, she adds a beautiful geometric pattern onto a periwinkle background color. Brenda attaches her beadwork to commercially tanned deer leather, the actual bag area measures 20 inches long by 6...

This stunning bag by Oglala Lakota Nation member, truly has the room for everything you need to carry. She makes a weighted flap that secures closed using an antler button. This helps to secure the items inside your bag. She adds a long beaded shoulder...

This strike-a-lite bag is hand made by Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe member Eric Petryszen.  He uses leather, a combination of colorful beads to create the his design. Dimensions: full length (includes beaded strap & fringe) 11.5 inches x width 4...

This particular strike-a-lite bag is hand crafted by Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe member Eric Petryszen where he utilizes leather, tin cones, dyed red horse hair, and a combination of white, pink, blue, green, yellow and metallic beads to make the design...

This particular strike-a-lite bag is hand crafted by Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe member Eric Iron Star where he utilizes leather, tin cones, and a combination of white, pink, blue, green and metallic beads to make the design. Dimensions: Full Length...

Hand beaded by local Lakota artist Brenda DuBray, Oglala Lakota Nation member, with glass beads on commercially tanned deer leather. Brenda adds a leather thong at the top, the bag can be cinched closed to help protect your precious pipe and bowl...

Native American Beadwork artist Brenda DuBray hand beads this lovely pipebag with shades of orchid, the bag is long enough to carry your most precious pipe and bowl. Brenda uses glass beads on commercially tanned deer leather, she finishes the bottom of...

This absolutely beautiful purse was created with the user in mind, the decorated shoulder strap is long, the bag section is very roomy and is secured closed with a zipper. Brenda DuBray, Oglala Lakota Nation member, pairs the main color of beadwork...

Brenda DuBray, Oglala Lakota Nation member, hand beads this beautiful design using glass beads with leather, wool cloth and metal spots. The bag is constructed with the user in mind, Brenda adds a zippered closure to help secure your personal belongings...

Local Oglala Lakota beadwork artist Brenda DuBray hand beads this pipe bag with the user in mind. The bag has a tie closure to help secure your pipe and pipe bowl, is super long and wide enough to store your most precious items. The actual bag measures...

Local Mnicoujou Lakota artist Jim Little Wounded created this rawhide (parfleche) cylinder and then painted the piece with images of spirit bear paws. Jim uses deer rawhide and paints with acrylic paints. Each end of the cylinder is painted and attached...

Local Oglala Lakota Nation member Jared Lanz, hand makes and decorates this rectangle bag. The beadwork style is Arapahoe and the seashells are added on the sides. Jared beads with glass beads, adds a long leather thing that is decorated with larger...

Local Native American beadwork artist Jared Lanz, Oglala Lakota Nation, hand beads this XLG Tipi Bag with hand cut glass Italian beads, these are the same beads that the Plains Indians first traded for with the U.S. government. The U.S. commissioned the...

Native American artist Jared Lanz, Oglala Lakota Nation, uses the classic Kapemni design, this design teaches us that what is above is below. Jared uses a beautiful piece of soft leather for the body of the bag, he adds the quilled slats and long...

Local Oglala Lakota Nation member Brenda Dubray hand beads this lovely extra large square bag with beaded shoulder strap. Brenda decorates the shoulder strap with beaded buffalo tracks and beads the front of the bag with a buffalo on a periwinkle colored...

Native American artist Jared Lanz (Oglala Lakota) hand makes this mirror bag with commercially tanned leather as well as cotton ticking material and sewn with real sinew.  The bag is decorated with powder blue, royal blue, greasy yellow, and red...

Native American artist Travis Tremblay (Mi’kmaq - Canada) creates this particular strike a lite bag with commercially tanned white leather.  The bag is decorated with a combination of different colored Czech style as well as brass Old style...

Hand Beaded and quilled by local Lakota artist Jared Lanz, Oglala Lakota Nation member. Jared loves to re-create pieces he has seen at Pow Wow's, museums and private collections. He is skilled with glass beads and chooses the use hand cut glass Italian...

Native American beadwork artist Travis Tremblay, Listuguj Mi’kmaq Nation member (Canada), likes the beadwork styles of many Nations. This bag is styled after the Crow Nation or Apsaalooke People, the trick is to make is hard to know which is the...

“During the protest at Standing Rock I was working, but I felt the power of prayers from the camps, it was good medicine. The Greed bag design consists of the gold tipi which represents the people who went against others and the redline represents...