Weapons & Shields

Native American artist Jim Little Wounded, Mnicoujou Lakota Nation, creates a lance long enough to hunt a Buffalo with, he imbues the spirit of the Bear by painting symbols of the paw on the lance tip cover. The shaft is wood, stained and covered in...

Native American artist Jim Little Wounded, Mnicoujou Lakota Nation, creates a long lance that is an example of a hunting lance. You would thrust the lance with full force, trying to plunge into the heart of the animal. Jim covers the wooden shaft of the...

Local Mnicoujou Lakota artist Jim Little Wounded, hand paints the soft leather cover of this shield with acrylic paint. Jim paints the image of an emerging Mato (Bear) Spirit and adds a hand beaded Thunder Bird amulet. Jim uses imitation red tail hawk...

Oglala Lakota Nation member Jared Lanz using old stock hand cut glass Italian beads, even utilizing white heart beads to complete his design. Jared attaches his beadwork to soft leather and then attaches the leather to rawhide, this helps to keep the...

Local Lakota artist Jim Little Wounded, Mnicoujou Lakota Nation member, hand paints the exciting image of horse raiding against your enemy, it was dangerous but rewarding if you were successful. Jim uses commercially tanned deer leather and paints with...

Hand Painted by Native American artist Mike McLeod, Bad River Band Chippewa, he uses the distinctive color scheme of green, yellow and red for his beadwork design, imitating the service ribbon. Mike adds a large piece of red wool cloth, abalone shells,...

Local Native American artist Jim Little wounded, Mnicoujou Lakota, hand paints the image of a ThunderBird entering the physical world bringing rain and thunder. Jim paints the shield with acrylic paint and finishes the piece with imitation feathers and...

Native American Beadwork artist Leaf Lanz, Oglala Lakota Nation, creates an old style of trade era knife and sheath set using a small antique knife. The knife is 7 inches long. Leaf pairs the small knife with a hand beaded small sheath. Measures:Length...

Local Native American beadwork artist Jared Lanz, Oglala Lakota Nation, uses a very old knife and builds a new sheath around it. The knife measures 15 inches long. Jared used glass beads on tanned leather, he finishes the sheath with tin cones...

Native American Beadwork artist Leaf Lanz, Oglala Lakota Nation, creates an old style of trade era knife and sheath sets.  Leaf uses glass beads on brain tanned deer hide. The knife is an antique trade items. Measures:Sheath: Length 13 1/2 |...

Native American artist Travis Tremblay, Listuguj Mi’kmaq Canada, hand beads the sheath with a nice combination of pearl finish beads on leather. He wraps the leather around rawhide to make the sheath sturdier. Travis added a tail that features...

Native American artist Thomas Ridley, Ute Mountain Ute Nation of Colorado, hand paints his personal image of calling for a vision. Thomas uses acrylic paints, adds small leather medicine bundles, clusters of bells with cloth and finishes the shield with...

Hand made by local Oglala Lakota artist Jared Lanz, he uses glass beads to create his Hills with Blue Skies design. Jared attaches his beadwork to smoked deer hide. He finishes the piece with leather thongs and a useable knife. Measures:Length 13...

Native American artist Thomas Ridley, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of Colorado, paints the image of the Buffalo Spirit emerging into the physical world. Thomas uses commercially prepared rawhide and stretches it across a willow hoop. He paints the rawhide...

Painted by Non-Native American artist Dan Chapman, Sturgis, SD. This leather-covered artifact reproduction was typical of the weapons used by Native hunters and warriors.The triangle opening in the head of this tomahawk reminds the owner to always...

Painted by Non-Native American artist Dan Chapman, Sturgis, SD. Bears were honored as a powerful spirit, noted for their bravery and fighting strength. By depicting the bear image on his shield, the warrior received the bear's attributes in battle. In...

Created by non-Native American artist Dan Chapman, and inspired by a Woodlands design, this bow set features a leather bow case, a beaver pelt quiver, long leather fringe, and decorated arrows.The set includes (1) bow and (3) arrows. The bow case is made...

Painted by Non-Native American artist Dan Chapman, Sturgis, SD. The Bear Lance has a bear claw cut out of the hand-forged point and is trimmed with red trade cloth, imitation eagle feathers, horse hair, rooster tail feathers and leather fringes and...

Created by non-Native American artist Dan Chapman, this axe exhibits trademark Native American inspired craft - from a stylized bear claw insignia, cut from the hand-forged head to the leather wrapped wooden handle. Fringes, Italian glass beads, red...

Created by non-Native American artist Dan Chapman, this lance was designed to be rammed, not thrown, the trick to using a lance was to let go at the right moment so as to get maximum force without toppling horse and rider. The leather fringe decorating a...

Created by non-Native American artist Dan Chapman, and inspired by a Plains Indian design, this bow set features a tapered bow case, a quiver with beaded details, long leather fringe, and decorated arrows.The set includes (1) bow and (3) arrows. The bow...

Created by non-Native American artist Dan Chapman, many interpretations exist for the symbolism of a red hand print placed upon personal effects, lodges, or one's horse. Among them the Red Hand has stood for possession or ownership, involvement in...

Created by non-Native American artist Dan Chapman, some Native American war shields depicted all the information you needed to know about the person who was carrying this shield. This war bonnet design is common all across "Indian Country" and was mostly...