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Indian articles as Buffalo bone chokers, breastplates,
earrings, doeskin purses and skirts, masks, medicine bags,
doeskin moccasins, pipes, etc. Items range in price from
as little as $5 to $1,000 for a fine piece of Indian art,
jewelry or full dress clothes.
"We stick to affordable items," Spilsbury says. "We
are sworn by the Indian Arts and Crafts Association to
represent products correctly."
Spilsbury says some clothing items may take up to a week
to make. She says a traditional Indian choker is about
a 2-1/2 day job. Rick Spilsbury, Delaine's son, handcrafts
a lot of the jewelry himself, pointing out that many artists
take traditional designs and create pieces with their
own personal flare.
"Other than the glass beads, everything we use is natural,"
Delaine Spilsbury says. "It's either critter or out of
the ground." Ms. Squaw arts, crafts and jewelry are sold
at the following locations:
• North Eastern Nevada Museum, 15151 Idaho St., Elko,
NV. Phone: (775) 738-3418.
• Great Basin National Park, located seven miles
west of Baker, NV., inside the Bristlecone Visitor's Bureau.
Phone: 1-800-HY6-9350.
• Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson
City, NV. 89701. Phone: (775) 687-4810.
• Stewart Indian School Museum, 5366 Snyder Ave.,
Carson City, NV. 89701. Phone: (775) 882-6929.
• Lost City Museum, 721 S. Moapa Valley Blvd., Overton,
NV. Phone: (702) 397-2193.
• Moapa Arts and Crafts, 30 miles north of Las Vegas
off Interstate 15. Phone: (702) 864-2600.
• Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort, 20 minutes northwest
of downtown Las Vegas on US 95 North. Phone: 1-800-655-4444.
• Smoke Signals Trading Post, 191-1 S. Frontage Road,
Pahrump, NV. Phone: 1-800-546-1151.
• Clark County Heritage Museum, 1830 S. Boulder Highway,
Henderson, NV. 89015. Phone: (702) 455-7955.
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