Old Style Parfleche Paint Cookies for painting rawhide!

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Old Style Parfleche Paints by This auction is for 5 paint cookies with a natural binder and either natural earths or early trade colorants. Parfleche paint cookies have virtually been unavailable for nearly a century. They were used by Plains Indian and Plateau tribes to paint the beautiful painted Parfleche and rawhide cases, bags and envelopes seen at many of the best museums in the country today. Other items of rawhide that were painted are shields, horse cruppers, rawhide cutouts in the shapes of horses, birds, bears and other animals, also rawhide trunks, the rare horse fenders, band other objects. You can go to our website and Here is a direct link to that page: /beadmatch_materials.html Photos in this listing 1 The first photo show Blackfeet style flat case painted with our paint cookies, painted 2010 on the Blackfoot Reservation. 2 The second photo is a photo of a replication, side by side with the original of it using various colors from our paint cookie inventory. The replication was painted by a beginner daughter and father team and was their first use of parfleche painting cookies. The hide used was a wet scraped elk hide. The parfleche on the left is the original. 3 The third photo is a the replication mentioned in photo 2. There are actually 21 different colors and/or shades, this auction is only offering the 5 listed below. This photo shows other colors and shades that are available from 4. The fourth photo is a photo of the basic starter set of 5 cookies that we are selling on this auction. There are actually 21 different colors and/or shades, this auction is only offering the 5 listed below. The second photograph here on the ebay site is a photo of all the cookies that were used to produce the parfleche envelopes and cylinders that you see in the rest of the photos. This auction contains a selection of 5 of these cookies, the basic colors. This auction does not include the parfleche in the photo. 5. The fifth photo shows Sioux style cylindrical case also painted with our cookies. 6. The sixth photo shows a number of parfleche painted by Robert Brewer with our cookies. Many of hid painted parfleche are on display in museums and are parts of major collections internationally. If you want to purchase his work please type in his ebay name which is oldnbroke 7. The seventh photo shows wide range of the colors of our paint cookies that you can get from us, for more information you may also visit Note none of the case come with the aution only the five cookies in photo number 4 being bid on, thank you! Here are the color numbers for this set of 5 cookies: B-3 Blue G-2 Green Y-3 Yellow R-2 Red E-2 Dark Brown/Black for outlining Cookie size may vary between 1 ¼” to 2” depending on the colors, the natural brown earth cookies E series tend to be on the smaller range of this cookie size. Go to our website for a short “How To?” on the use of these paint cookies! Go to the materials page and then scroll down to it on the materials page. Paint Materials Safety Information These cookies are artist’s materials for mature artists. They are not intended for use by children. Some of the original pigments used in water colors, oil paints, and acrylic paints sold by major art supply houses may contain materials that need to be used in a safe responsible way. We have used some of this type of pigment in some of our cookies. Keep out of reach of children. We suggest using rubber or surgical gloves when applying pigment. Even natural pigments contain material that may be harmful if not used in a responsible manner. Keep stored in a cool dry secure place. S... read more

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