A GROUP OF SIOUX BEADED AND QUILLED ITEMS
A GROUP OF SIOUX BEADED AND QUILLED ITEMS

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A GROUP OF SIOUX BEADED AND QUILLED ITEMS
including a pair of beaded hide armbands, stitched in various colors, each with cross motifs, coiled tassels; a pair of quilled hide cuffs, in ivory, blue, purple, yellow, and red-dyed porcupine quills, each with chevron and cross motifs; and a pair of beaded hide gauntlets, each with floral and star motifs, stitched in various shades of translucent and metal beads, with short hide fringe along the cuff
Lengths: the armbands, 20 in. (50.7 cm.); the cuffs, 4¾ in. (12 cm.); the gauntlets, 12½ in. (31.7 cm.) each (6)

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