Welcome to Dakota Bones. Collect your one of a kind unique horse hair, pit-fire, and raku pottery from the renowned artist of Mitchell, South Dakota.

    Your horse hair vessel by Cherie Ramsdell remembers the kiss of smoke when horse or buffalo hair sizzles and curls on the white hot surface during the firing process. “The hair is held against the design to create a pattern." When your piece has cooled, Ramsdell scrubs off excess carbon, and applies wax to protect its surface. The result is a soft glowing organic patina which looks more like wood or marble than clay. This unique surface looks great in any decor. Ramsdell's dramatic monochromatic horse and buffalo hair pots are a modern interpretation of the Apache tradition honoring a fallen war horse. The hair of the noble buffalo and the proud prairie horses are incorporated into the vessel, so the spirit of these great plains animals are always present.

The buffalo hair is collected from branches and various rubs used by wild buffalo in the Badlands of South Dakota. The horse hair is donated by local ranch and rodeo horses.