Indian Belt
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An essay by Annie Beecher Scoville in the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club about a Plains Indian beaded belt she bought for fifty cents in a Northwest trader's store about twelve years earlier. She uses the belt to sketch the history of Native American bead weaving, from shell wampum strung on cedar-fibre warps to the use of European glass beads obtained in trade. She describes the belt's "Four Winds" and lightning design in blues, greens, gold and ruby. A photograph of the belt and a photograph of an Inca gauze fragment accompany the text.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1922
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
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