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Quill and beadwork of the western Sioux

Title
Quill and beadwork of the western Sioux / by Carrie A. Lyford, associate supervisor of Indian education. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. A publication of the Education division, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs. Edited by Willard W. Beatty, Director of Education.
Author
Lyford, Carrie A. (Carrie Alberta)
Publication
  • [Washington, D.C.] : Education Division, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs, 1940.
  • Lawrence, Kan. : Printing Deptartment, Haskell Institute, [1940]

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Additional Authors
Beatty, Willard W. (Willard Walcott), 1891-1961
Description
116 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including map); 26 cm.
Summary
"...we have tried here to present designs known to be Sioux, for use in Sioux schools. The purpose of the book is a practical one. Though we have striven for accuracy, our aim has not been an exhaustive scientific study. Rather, it has been to bring together a representative collection of designs and to explain them, so that practical workers, both students and teachers, may be able to recognize the bead and quillwork of the western Sioux and to make it for themselves. The art has changed in the past and those who understand its style and uses may use their imaginations to develop it still more, while keeping it Indian and Sioux."--Introduction, page 9.
Series Statement
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Indian handicraft 1
Uniform Title
Indian handcrafts ; 1.
Subject
  • Lakota beadwork
  • Indian beadwork > Great Plains
  • Quillwork > Great Plains
  • Lakota art
  • Indians of North America > Clothing > Great Plains
  • Indian beadwork
  • Indians of North America > Clothing
  • Great Plains
Note
  • "The people of this great tribe, the second largest in the United States, speak of themselves by a word which means Friends and Allies. Some of them call it Dakota, some Nakota, while the western Sioux, the subject of our discussion, say Lakota"--Page 11.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 88-92.
Contents
Introduction -- The western Sioux -- Skins and sinew -- Porcupine quillwork -- Beadwork -- Development of Sioux designs -- Summary -- Museums -- Bibliography -- Plates of Sioux designs.
ISBN
  • 0933472005
  • 9780933472006
LCCN
41011559
OCLC
  • ocm00607927
  • 607927
  • SCSB-158808
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library