Word: bead
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There is also some porcupine quill work and bead work of the Crow and Cheyenne Indians, presented by Mrs. Farlow. Dr. William McM, Woodworth has donated to the University some objects that he had collected on his trip to the Pacific Isles and that his brother had collected on the northwestern coast...
...times, ancient bows and arrows, musical instruments and some interesting examples of porcupine embroidery. The last named is especially valuable from a scientific point of view, as being one of the few relics of a sort of decoration which was long ago superseded by bead work. In addition to these there is a collection of pipes, among which are four calumets or sacred pipes of peace, and some eagle feathers of the kind usually worn at peace councils. The tribes of Indians represented in the collection are the Algonquins, the Sioux, the Seminoles and the Choctaws...