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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 378994, member: 55&quot;]It might be mentioned that this was made on a bead loom and then attached to the leather backing.&nbsp;&nbsp; Bead looms were widely available craft items from the 1950s onward, and often came with suggested patterns loosely based on native American or even Ukrainian designs.</p><p>This means that it could have been made by almost anyone; home craftsperson; cub scout; or even a native American, as bead looms were used by some native craftspeople to produce souvenir items - and their designs were not necessarily based on actual native designs either.&nbsp; Some were; some weren&#039;t.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve got a frame containing 200 small &quot;thunderbirds&quot; made on a bead loom for a trading-post in the Midwest, circa 1950.&nbsp; They were intended to be stitched to a leather backing for sale to tourists as bracelets, and are believed to be native-made.&nbsp; But as far as authentic, the design of the thunderbird simply isn&#039;t; likely someone at the trading-post on the reservation provided the design, and told those natives working for him &quot;make me 1,000 of these.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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