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Example sentences for "beadwork"

Lexicographically close words:
beadle; beadles; beadlike; beads; beadsman; beady; beagles; beah; beak; beaked
  1. I will teach you to make beautiful dresses and trim them with beadwork and quills.

  2. They made beautiful beadwork to trim dresses and moccasins.

  3. Tell her to leave her everlasting beadwork long enough to ride in the white man's motor-car.

  4. As in that past time when she had visited the Red Mill, Wonota was usually content to sit with Aunt Alvirah and make beadwork while the old woman knitted.

  5. It was thus that Rolfe, the English planter saw her, And the picture of the maiden at her beadwork Haunted long his memory as he sat alone In the home bereft of woman's love and care.

  6. Even Wonota has thought only for her tiresome beadwork when she is not studying her part with Mr. Hooley and you.

  7. But my grandmother was the head woman of our tribe, and her beadwork and dyed porcupine-quill work was the finest you ever saw, Ruth Fielding.

  8. She sat by Aunt Alvirah for hours doing beadwork while the old woman darned or knitted.

  9. We can get rid of the moccasins and the stone hatchets and the beadwork breastplates by storing them in a trunk up in the attic.

  10. With her she carried the blanket and the medicine bag adorned with the beadwork owl.

  11. He dipped his fingers into a pouch at his belt and took out the bits of dried mushroom Owl Carver had given him from a medicine bag decorated with a beadwork owl.

  12. His delighted eyes took in quillwork and beadwork and paint, blankets and ribbons, bodies clad in fringed buckskin, warm brown faces, dark, friendly eyes.

  13. From a cord around his waist Owl Carver untied a medicine bag decorated with a beadwork owl.

  14. This is the more remarkable as it apparently dates from about the period when beadwork was so much in fashion for purses, etc.

  15. The only modern sampler in The Fine Art Society's Exhibition in which beadwork was employed.

  16. Beadwork seems to have been extensively utilised in seventeenth-century pictures, but it does not figure in Samplers until a late date, and then only to a minor extent.

  17. Among the Nez Perce, floral and plant designs in beadwork are particularly common although some geometric designs occur, as on belts, the decoration of which is largely geometric, as squares, triangles and similar figures.

  18. Porcupine quills, embroidery, beadwork and painting on moccasins were used in the general plateau region of which this is a part.

  19. Arikara beadwork and other articles of handicraft are sometimes available at the store in Nishu.

  20. Sioux beadwork and other articles of handicraft can be purchased in the stores at reasonable prices.

  21. Other women, using bone awls and needles, were decorating girdles, fans, moccasins, and dresses with beadwork and embroidery.

  22. Preservation of tribal arts, including beadwork and pottery, is encouraged.

  23. Many delightful specimens of these beadwork pictures are preserved, the colours, of course, being as fresh as yesterday.

  24. The ground was always of white satin, now faded and discoloured with age, and often torn with the heaviness of the beadwork design.

  25. The dog drivers put on some extra articles of finery of beautiful beadwork or silkwork, that they might appear as attractive as possible.

  26. They had been making beadwork and some other things to sell at Norway House, so that they would not be dependent upon the friends there while they pleaded for a missionary.

  27. One peculiarity of Mohegan art is beadwork upon birch bark.

  28. It may be said in general, however, that the same type of floral beadwork extends throughout the whole northeastern and Great Lakes area, in which the Mohegan work may be included.

  29. The beadwork figures are practically all floral, though a few geometrical designs occur; and realism appears as in the butterfly representation.

  30. A few examples of Mohegan and Niantic beadwork have survived the decay of Indian culture in New England.

  31. To smokers were given embroidered tobacco pouches in green, pink, and silver; one charming old beadwork tobacco pouch in Taunton Castle is embroidered "LOVE ME FOR I AM THINE, 1631.

  32. In later years women have wrought needlework and beadwork pictures, and have even threaded their needles with human hair when no silk could be found fine enough.

  33. Many of these wear brilliantly-coloured tunics of cloth or dressed buckskin, more or less tastefully adorned with beadwork or shining silver plates.

  34. She handed him an Indian head-dress of beadwork and cloth, from whose summit rose a tall eagle-feather.

  35. The dress of both men was the regulation tunic and leggings of dressed deerskin, of Indian manufacture, and profusely ornamented with beadwork and fringes; that of Vipan being adorned with scalp-locks in addition.

  36. Hank wore the Blackfoot distinctive double part in his hair just above the forehead, the isolated tuft pulled down to the bridge of his nose, and fastened to his buckskin trousers were thin strips of beadwork made by Blackfoot squaws.

  37. They bound bands of beadwork or soft tanned skin around their foreheads, and Hank's hair proudly displayed two iridescent bronze feathers from the tail of a rooster.

  38. Beadwork designs for front band of bonnet; all have white grounds.

  39. The beadwork of the Duchess reminds me of another somewhat similar incident.

  40. It was about as much like the genuine and beautiful beadwork of the older tribes as the tawdry American imitations are like true Japanese textures and curios.

  41. Women sat on the floor, papooses on their backs, beadwork in hand.

  42. They had the right to trade beadwork or another dollar for it any time they liked.

  43. Sometimes bands of beadwork were tied around the leggings below the knees.

  44. He is then fastened securely in place by bandages of cloth decorated with beadwork or by laces or thongs.

  45. There are two kinds of beadwork now made.

  46. Very little of this work has been done of late years: beadwork has almost crowded it out of use.

  47. First was the breech-clout, which consisted of a strip of skin or cloth perhaps a foot wide and several feet long; sometimes its ends were decorated with beadwork or other ornamentation.

  48. Beadwork Old beads are much valued and sought after by all the tribes except Ibans, especially by the Kayans.

  49. Although the women use these patterns in beadwork and in tatuing, they rely in the main on the men for the patterns which they copy; these being drawn on wood or cloth for beadwork, or carved in low relief for tatuing.

  50. With few exceptions all the women allow the hair to grow uncut and to fall naturally from the ridge of the cranium, confined only by a circular band of rattan or beadwork passing over the occiput and just above the eyebrows.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beadwork" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.