Explore: Native American Beadwork

Contemporary beadwork includes: beaded clothing, collars, bracelets, necklaces, clothing accessories like handbags and purses. Native American beadwork, already

sculptures, basketry, carvings, and beadwork. Because too many artists were posing as Native Americans and Alaska Natives to profit from the cachet of Indigenous

approach to beadwork. They adhere beads, one by one, to a surface, such as wood or a gourd, with a mixture of resin and beeswax. Most Native beadwork is created

like beadwork and quillwork. Metalsmiths, beaders, carvers, and lapidaries combine these materials to create jewelry. Contemporary Native American jewelry

"Native American Beadwork: Wampum belts, beaded jewelry, and other Native American beading arts". www.native-languages.org. "Native American Beadwork:

Jackie Larson Bread is a Native American beadwork artist from the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning, Montana. Her interest in bead work was sparked from

Jennings, Kiowa/Kiowa Apache/Pima, beadwork artist, regalia maker, and tipi maker Lois Smoky Kaulaity (1907–1981), Kiowa beadwork artist and painter (one of the

and the stitch has also been used in historic and contemporary Native American beadwork. The name "peyote stitch" derives from the use of this stitch to

Marcus Amerman (born 1959) is a Native American (Choctaw Nation) beadwork artist, glass artist, painter, fashion designer, and performance artist, living

Teri Garr (1944–2024), American actress Teri Greeves (born 1970), Native American beadwork artist Teri Harrison (born 1981), American model Teri Hatcher (born