Purses & Bags

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...

Hand made by Oglala Lakota artist Emilie Ravenshead, she recreates the historical style of a 3 sided bag with a long decorated tail. Each side of the bag is beaded with a different version of the floral design, Emilie uses hand cut glass beads on tanned...

Native American artist Jim Little Wounded, Mnicoujou Lakota, hand paints his balanced designed on a rawhide pouch. The sides of the pouch are sewn together with leather, he adds long fringe to the sides. The front and back of the pouch are painted with...

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...

Joelle Follows the Road, Standing Rock Sioux Nation, hand created this clutch style bag to commemorate the Butterflies from home. “ I got the idea of "Butterflies from Standing Rock” from one of our summer trips to the southern part of the...

Joelle Follows the Road, Standing Rock Sioux Nation, hand created this clutch style bag to commemorate the Kootenai and their relationship to fishing. “I think I channeled my maternal Kootenai roots for this piece. According to my mother, her...

“Matthew 17:20 is a Thank You to the Lord.” ~Joelle Follows the Road - Standing Rock Sioux Nation “After witnessing my mother, who had been hospitalized with a severe lung infection and was near death, being healed. Through prayer I...

Oglala Lakota Nation member Jared Lanz, hand makes this lovely beaded medallion bag. Jared attaches a long shoulder strap if you want to use this as a small purse. It can be worn as a beaded medallion. Jared uses soft cream colored leather for his...

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...

Oglala Lakota Nation member Brenda DuBray creates this clever design with the user in mind, the strap can be unhooked and the just the bag can be used as a clutch. The beaded strap easily clips onto the bag. Brand chose a vibrant red paired with a blue...

Oglala Lakota Nation member Kevin Fast Horse Sr. hand beads with old stock glass Italian beads, these are the same beads his ancestors traded for. He attaches his beadwork to commercially tanned deer leather. Kevin decorates the bag with abalone shells,...

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...

Local Lakota beadwork artist Brenda DuBray, Oglala Lakota Nation, hand beads this special purse with glass beads. She decorates the purse leather dangles that feature metal cones, metal beads and bone discs. The flap of the purse secures with leather...

Created in the historical style of the Plains Indians, Native American artist Jared Lanz, Oglala Lakota Nation member, made a recreation of a small sewing bag. Bags made carrying your very important personal items much easier, the design will keep your...

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...

Created by local Lakota artist Jared Lanz, Oglala Lakota Nation. This magnificent piece is quilled and beaded on hand tanned buffalo rawhide, the bag can be described as neat and tidy and can be used for your most inter-personal needs. The actual...

“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...

Each bag is decorated with a band of beadwork, long fringe along the bottom edge, and a few beads on the leather drawstring around the top of the bag.These beaded leather bags by Native American artist Kevin D. Fast Horse, Oglala Lakota Nation member,...