BEADWORK & DOLLS

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 Featured are DOLLS by DARCY, a collection of hand-crafted dolls in the tradition of the western Plains Indians and the Eastern Woodlands Indians of North America.

We also show a variety of beaded necklaces inspired by the trade jewelry of 19th Century Native American tribes, and by the beaded jewelry of Africa, Tibet, Eastern Europe and Oceania. These items are custom crafted at the time an order is placed.

                                                  Iroquois Woman and Child   

Handcrafted with the utmost authenticity, all the materials used, with the exception of simulated sinew, are the same materials used over 100 years ago by Native American peoples. The doll's sizes aNd outfits are the truest to those made during the period 1830 to 1880. The dolls are made of leather, cloth, glass beads, hides of animals such as deer, bear and buffalo as well as elk, sheep and goat. Native people made little tipis, travois and weapons with which the children could imitate the activities of their elders. The entire play scheme became in fact the basic pathway over which the child made a smooth adjustment to adulthood. Dolls were treated with a great deal of respect and cherished for a lifetime.

Female dolls almost always had belt kits consisting of a Strike-O-Light Bag, to carry a piece of flint and a piece of steel for starting fires, an Awl and Awl case, needed for sewing, and a knife and sheath. The dolls are stuffed with dried weeds and grasses from the garden or animal / human hair.  The dolls are decorated with reproduction glass beads. Each doll is a one of a kind piece of art and numbered and signed on the bottom of the foot.

Darcy was raised in Bordentown New Jersey and moved to Ventnor New Jersey in 1980.  She started the “Black Hawk Re-enactors Troupe” for the purpose of educating students of all ages on the Native American way of life. They perform historical programs for schools, civic organizations and scout groups. The programs are held inside a tipi. 

Darcy now resides with her daughter in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Tea-dyed bone and brass beads and drops. Can be made as shown, with fewer strands or as single strands.

Red white hearts, chevrons, millefiori and watermelon beads; reproduction dzi beads. Can be made in multiple or single strand designs.

Orange white hearts, bone spacers and center beads, gold-washed African beads and small copper knot, with brass drops on bottom strand..

Detail of orange white heart necklace.

Tea-dyed bone beads, carved bone claws, interspersed with color beads, brass drops.

Red white hearts, dyed bone spacers and central oval carved bone beads, brass beads.

Belt or necklace in white bone, red white hearts, hair pipe spacers interspersed with color glass beads.

Multi-strand bib necklace in cobalt blue and red beads, copper beads, dyed hair pipe spacers.

Plains style trade necklace, red white hearts, brass, bone, hair pipes, charms, shells, cut leather fringe and ties..

Close view of above.

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