Beadwork (clockwise from top): A schoolteacher on a reservation received this beaded cigar box as a gift. The intricate designs were laid out only in the beader's mind.
This small dress is on display in the Smithsonian. The Andersons said it was a Sioux girl's dress, probably from 1885 to 1895. The intense beadwork shows the importance placed on family, since the beader would work for days to make a dress the child would soon outgrow.
Beaded turtles like this one, about three inches across, were made for a baby girl when she was born. Inside was stuffed a piece of the umbilical cord. Boys received a beaded lizard. The lizard may have been picked for boys because of their speed and agility, while turtles represented a steady pace for the girls.
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