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.