Leatherworkers and Saddlemakers

A self-taught artist, Harrison Red Crow began creating traditional works of art in the late 1980s, mainly out of necessity. Having been raised around horses all his life, he grew curious about what it took to make traditional horse gear and began making horse blankets, knife scabbards, rifle scabbards, double bags, quirts and rawhide bags.

Jo-Ester Parshall began doing porcupine-quill work in the late 1980s. Over the past few years, she has made approximately a dozen quilled horse masks. She is pictured holding a partially completed man's breastplate, decorated with porcupine quills. The pendant, earrings and child's dress in the background were also made by her.

Robert Crutcher, a rawhide braider, demonstrates his skill at the cowboy poetry gathering in Elko, Nevada, 1996

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