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Paytyn Fogarty

Paytyn Growing Thunder

Triple Cross Body Bag

TRIBAL AFFILIATION:
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation

CLASSIFICATION:

BOOTH NUMBER:
WA W 417

MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE:
Paytyn is a youth sharer, she is 16 years old and has been mentoring under her Grandmother Joyce Growing Thunder Azande her Aunt Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty all of her life and seriously since the age of 6. Paytyn designs and creates beaded bags and jewelry solely on her own. She uses hand tanned buckskin and traditional materials and beads in sizes 13-11 seed beads. She uses the different technics of wrapped stitch, lazy stitch, wrapped edging, flat stitch, and various edging technics.