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Because you want your southwest home decor to be interesting as well as beautiful, make your rooms say something. Give them life with rawhide lamp shades, Native American style baskets and pottery or southwest rugs. Keep all ornamentation or rustic accessories subservient to the lines that your room naturally creates. Try to imagine how you want each room to look when completed. For example, light or dark rawhide shades on rustic lamps can make a dramatic impression. Get the picture we …

Southwestern decorating is easy to achieve with a few key items and a little creativity. To create the style of southwestern charm you see in designer magazines, consider incorporating authentic Native American handcrafts into your decor. You will love the look of a large powwow drum used as a coffee table, or how a buffalo skull, adorned with feathers and turquoise, gives your home a true southwestern feel.Because Native American designs can also be found on throws, bedding, curtains and …

Native Indians love to produce painted hides depicting traditional events of life itself. Tribesmen and women paint different elements according to their particular environments. Women traditionally create abstract designs, and men create pictures that really describe the tough lifestyle that they endure. The raw materials used to create painted hides are provided by many different animals including elk, deer and buffalo.  Rawhide is often selected for utilitarian purposes, while …

Painting drums with Indian art is a fascinating activity. As you can see from our website we offer a variety of painted drums that reflect many different images from Native American life and nature. We are often asked how to paint a drum by those in Native American circles. While selecting a personal drum that is painted is easiest for most people, it can also be very fulfilling to customize a drum yourself. Get creative and express yourself, letting your drum painting please you. To a …

One of the most symbolic items of the Native American people is the dream catcher. It is believed that a dream catcher placed above the area where one sleeps, will filter out the bad dreams while permitting the good dreams to flow through.When dreams flow though a dream catcher, the good dreams enter the hole in the center, and flow down the feathers to the person sleeping below. Bad dreams are caught in the webbing, and released with the rising of the sun.Dream catchers have come to be …