Bags, cases, pouches

Since I got a Kibler long rifle, I decided to make a case for it. The rifle suffers a lot on reenacting camps and a case can help, is practical and can be nice. The choice fell on a gun case in the Indian style of the Athabascan speaking tribes. Such gun cases are simple, historically accurate and practical as well as pretty.

Strike-a-light bags, common among 19th-century Plains Indians, served both practical and decorative purposes, protecting fragile steel fire strikers while showcasing intricate beadwork, tin cone ornaments, and tribal designs. Originating likely among the Kiowa and Comanche, these trapezoidal leather pouches—often made of tough commercial cowhide—were crafted primarily by women and traded widely across the Plains, becoming both utilitarian tools and works of art.