Native American crafts?

[TheMightyGerbil]

Does anyone here enjoy/collect Native American art? I don't mean the clique 3-wolf type stuff, but art that's more authentic and has some real effort and respect put into building it. Stuff that is handmade with bone beads, deer antler, bison teeth, pelts, handwoven with strips pf bark, leather and deer sinew used as thread, even a bone splinter and porcupine quill used fo sewing, etc. Anyone?

[smokehound]

My aunt is obsessed with kachina Dolls. Which is odd, considering we have Sioux ancestry, and not pueblo.

o_O

[TheMightyGerbil]

I just finished a willow limb basket with all the bells and whistles. I started it in 2001. Seriously! It took 5 months for the green limbs to dry and harden for the base and I played with it every now and then over all these years. Went a few years in storage gathering dust, sadly. I'm laid up after having emergency surgery one week ago and I used my endless couch time finishing it at long last. I was challenged to use only natural tools and materials and that I did - I even cut the branches with a flint blade and did the sewing with soaked bark strips, deer sinew and leather! Heck the sewing needle was either a sharpened antler fragment or a porcupine needle, I took the challenge seriously LOL. I used hawk, pheasant and duck feathers, pelts from two rabbits I shot, skinned and cured myself, coyote teeth, walnut stained bone beads, a bison tooth, bison hair, an intact painted deer antler, hand-knapped agate and obsidian arrowheads, a hand-woven mini dreamcatcher, the works! I went nuts on that thing LOL. Not even sure I'm done with it, feeling an urge to add a sweetgrass braid or something. Sadly I'm without income (off work all month to recover from surgery) and have a car loan payment to make so I'm going to sell the basket via auction starting tomorrow. Might use the leftover money from that for materials to make a beaded bison horn drinking cup, those are enjoyable to make. I'd forgotten how much fun this stuff is to make!

[DockRat]

I'm into Mapuche tribe.
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb309/ghhustavo/mapuche.jpghttp://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg172/infinitoswp/imagen_mapuche.jpg

[City Dad]

TMG,

I grew up across the river from the Colville reservation. Though not a coastal people, they did speak Salish. I'm an arm-chair anthologist and am still fascinated with the FIRST real Americans. Love to see any pics of your projects.

This is the logo I made for the boxes of flies I give away.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb225/timmeinhart/SHE05.jpg