Source Directory Listings for Montana

Bison Specialties
9230 Pryor Road, Billings, MT 59101; tel (406) 259-6342; e-mail bison@mch.net; O/M: Marla Little Light (Crow); craftsperson.

Products: Traditionally tanned hides, handmade moccasins, Native American dolls, educational video/booklet, and more.

Flathead Indian Museum Trading Post & Art Gallery
PO Box 464, St Ignatius, MT 59865 (on Hwy 93 opposite St Ignatius); 10am-9pm, daily, June-Aug; 10am-5pm, daily, Sept-May; tel (406) 745-2951; O/M: L Doug Allard (Flathead).

Products: Moccasins; beaded buckles, medallions, hair ties, earrings; silver and turquoise jewelry; dance clothing; Indian paintings. Special orders accepted on beadwork and buckskin items. Mail order, wholesale-retail.

Fort Belknap Ventures, Inc
RR 1, Box 66, Harlem, MT 59526 (Hwy 2); 7am-7pm, Mon-Sat; tel (406) 353-2205, ext 403; (Fort Belknap Gros Ventres and Assiniboine tribal enterprise); M: Frankie Johnson.

Products: Paintings; sculpture; beaded bolo ties, barrettes, belt buckles, and earrings; dolls; moccasins; star quilts; ribbon shirts; handbags; pipebags; dream catchers; smudge sticks. Quantity orders accepted. Send stamped self-addressed envelope for price list and information.

Great Plains Gallery
PO Box 126, Apt 28, Lame Deer, MT 59043-0126 (St Hwy 39 & 212; 1 mi north of Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation); no regular hours; no telephone; O/M: Donald Hollowbreast (Northern Cheyenne); artist.

Products: Oil paintings, watercolors, pen and ink drawings. Commissions from color photographs and special orders accepted. No mail order.

King Kuka Graphics
907 Ave C, NW, Great Falls, MT 59404; regular hours, call for appointment; tel (406) 452-4449; O/M: King Kuka (Blackfeet); artist.

Products: Original watercolor paintings, alabaster and bronze sculptures, hand-pulled serigraphs, bone chokers. Special orders accepted. Mail order; wholesale, retail. Send stamped self-addressed business-size envelope for price list and information.

Northern Plains Indian Crafts Association
PO Box E, Browning, MT 59417; (on US 89 in the Museum of the Plains Indian); 9am-5pm, daily, June-Sept; 10am-4:30pm, Mon-Fri, Oct-May; tel (406) 338-5661; (association of Northern Plains Indian craftspersons); M: Jackie Parsons (Blackfeet).

Products: Buckskin vests, gloves, handbags; moccasins; beadwork jewelry and accessories, all types of beaded belts; dolls; decorated rawhide office accessories, letter trays, work baskets, and wastebaskets; porcupine hair roaches; Native-tanned hides. Mail order/send stamped self-addressed business-size envelope for price list.