# 25 C.F.R. § 309.7 (2025): How should a seller disclose the nature and degree of Indian labor when selling, offering, or displaying art and craft work for sale? > Federal · Regulations · In force URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/CFR_T25_P309_S309_7 ## Section - **Citation:** 25 C.F.R. § 309.7 (2025) - **Heading:** How should a seller disclose the nature and degree of Indian labor when selling, offering, or displaying art and craft work for sale? - **Jurisdiction:** Federal - **Kind:** Regulations - **Status:** In force - **Text as of:** August 14, 2026 - **Source:** Compiled text - **Location:** Title 25 CFR: Indians / Chapter II: INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS BOARD, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR / Part 309: PROTECTION OF INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS PRODUCTS / § 309.7: § 309.7 How should a seller disclose the nature and degree of Indian labor when selling, offering, or displaying art and craft work for sale? ## Text The Indian Arts and Crafts Act is a truth-in-marketing law. Those who produce and market art and craft work should honestly represent and clarify the degree of Indian involvement in the production of the art and craft work when it is sold, displayed or offered for sale. The following guidelines illustrate the way in which art and craft work may be characterized for marketing purposes and gives examples of products that may be marketed as Indian products. If . . . then . . . (a) An Indian conceives, designs, and makes the art or craft work it is an “Indian product.” (b) An Indian produces a product that is “handcrafted,” as explained in 309.3(d)(iii) it can be marketed as such and it meets the definition of “Indian product.” (c) An Indian makes an art or craft work using some machine made parts it is “Indian made” and meets the definition of “Indian product.” (d) An Indian designs a product, such as a bracelet, which is then produced by non-Indians it does not meet the definition of “Indian product” under the Act. (e) A product, such as jewelry, is made with non-artistic Indian labor, from assembled or “fit together parts” it does not meet the definition of “Indian product” under the Act. 1 (f) A product in the style of an Indian product is assembled by non-Indian labor from a kit it does not meet the definition of “Indian product” under the Act. (g) A product is in the style of an Indian art or craft product, but not made by an Indian it does not meet the definition of “Indian product” under the Act. ogether parts” it does not meet the definition of “Indian product” under the Act. 1 (f) A product in the style of an Indian product is assembled by non-Indian labor from a kit it does not meet the definition of “Indian product” under the Act. (g) A product is in the style of an Indian art or craft product, but not made by an Indian it does not meet the definition of “Indian product” under the Act. (h) An Indian and a non-Indian jointly undertake the art or craft work to produce an art or craft product, for example a concho belt less than all of the labor is Indian and hence it does not meet the definition of “Indian product” under the Act. 2 1 For example, a necklace strung with overseas manufactured fetishes or heshi. If an Indian assembled the necklace, in keeping with the truth-in-marketing focus of the Act, it can be marketed as “Indian assembled.” It does not meet the definition of “Indian product” under the Act. Similarly, if a product, such as a dream catcher is assembled by an Indian from a kit, it can be marketed as “Indian assembled.” It does not meet the definition of “Indian product” under the Act. 2 In order to be an “Indian product,” the labor component of the product must be entirely Indian. In keeping with this truth-in-marketing law, a collaborative work should be marketed as such. Therefore, it should be marketed as produced by “X” (name of artist or artisan), “Y” (Tribe of individual's enrollment) or (name of Tribe providing official written certification the individual is a non-member Indian artisan and date upon which such certification was issued by the Tribe), and “Z” (name of artist or artisan with no Tribe listed) to avoid providing false suggestions to consumers. 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