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![]() This Otoe family specializes in making Oklahoma style pow wow regalia, but they also carry a wide variety of other traditional American Indian clothing and dance apparel--check out the Photo Album for more clothing types. |
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![]() Jingle dresses, fancy shawls, and other powwow wear handmade by a Tohono O'odham artist. Her Native American children's clothes are just adorable. |
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![]() Traditional Indian dresses and beaded regalia by an award-winning Navajo artist. If the native dresses are our of your price range, check the beaded shirts and purses in the online store. |
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![]() Native American roaches (men's dance headdresses) handmade by a Poarch Creek lady. A roach headdress is made of colored deer fur and porcupine guard hair, not the sharp quills. |
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![]() Another good source for quality handmade roaches, by a Potawatomi artist. |
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![]() Native American dance shawls by Lakota Sioux clothing artist Gerald Wright. Beautiful hand fringing. |
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![]() If you're looking for a Plains Indian breastplate, these Blackfeet artists make really beautiful ones. The rods are traditionally made of bone hairpipe or buffalo horn. American Indian breastplates were originally worn by Plains warriors as armor, but today Native men only wear them ceremonially, as regalia. |
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![]() This Mohawk designer makes traditional Native American ribbon shirts and dresses, buckskin shirts, and deerskin Native American dresses. |
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![]() Ribbon shirts and dresses, dance regalia, and Native American wedding dresses by a Cayuga seamstress. |
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![]() The Seminole Tribe of Florida is selling beautiful Seminole patchwork skirts, jacket ![]() |
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![]() Traditional finger-woven sashes and fringed buckskin jackets from a Metis artists' cooperative. |
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The most universal element of Native American dress, moccasins were worn throughout North America and into Central America, and remain popular footwear among many Indian tribes today. Visit our Native American Moccasins page to buy some from contemporary Indian artists. |
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![]() This moccasin store also sells traditional fur and leather mittens in the Cree and northern Indian style. |
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![]() This First Nations craft shop sells Native American gloves and mitts in the Ojibway style. |
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![]() Hand-knitted Native American sweaters, scarves, and other winter clothes by Coast Salish crafters. |
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![]() This Northwest Indian clothing store sells handmade Cowichan Indian sweaters, mittens, and other woolen clothes. |
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![]() This Navajo-owned clothing store screen-prints t-shirts with designs by contemporary American Indian artists. (The one at left is by Navajo artist Baje Whitethorne.) They have a broad selection of prints and you can get a really striking t-shirt this way. |
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![]() Northwest Indian t-shirt designs by a Nuu-chah-nulth artist. This native-owned store also sells scarves and ties with Indian designs. |
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![]() This Sioux-owned company, ubiquitous at powwows, is selling their casual t-shirts with humorous American Indian logos on ![]() |
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![]() This Anishinabe-owned Native American clothing store specializes in T-shirts. They also carry other Chippewa products such as ribbon shirts, quill baskets, and jewelry. |
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![]() Contemporary Canadian fashion designs with an Iroquois flair. Check out the women's capes and hats. |
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![]() Designer Native American clothing in dramatic Northwest Indian designs, by a Haida artist. |
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![]() This Spokane Indian clothing designer presents fine leather jackets painted with Northwest Coast designs. |
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Woven blankets were used as cloaks in the Southwest and dance regalia in the Pacific Northwest; later, colorful wool blankets introduced by Europeans became popular as outerwear in many tribes. Today, blankets are not usually used as articles of clothing, so we have put our pictures and information about Native American blankets on the page with Indian rugs and other weavings. Look for it there! |
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