Beads and beadwork of the American Indians : a study based on specimens in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (1929)
Orchard, William C · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 208
140 BEADS AND BEADWORK ornamented with rows of beads, one red and the other blue, sewed on with a thread in the manner shown in fig. 133. … Fig. 136.— Nootka basket made of cedar-bark with glass beads interwoven. (6/3341) Art in beadwork, like other means employed to give expression to the esthetic side of Indian life, is fast yielding to the encroachment of civilization. In a measure the trader's influence is responsible for the…
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