Meanings of bead-work in English

Two couches were made up of Zuni bead-work ornaments and buck-skin embroideries.

Sea bead-work designs, also in carvings on boundary marks, witch-doctor's baskets, etc.

The margins were beautifully scalloped and adorned with natural bead-work of exquisite beauty.

I got her on a lounge and opened the bead-work.

The dining-room is entered through the rustling bead-work curtain.

And her mother, bending over her bead-work, smiled too, out of their happiness, their security.

Jeannette came regularly, and one morning, tired of the bead-work, I proposed teaching her to read.

Her dress was covered with wampum, and her moccasins ornamented with bead-work stars that reflected their dazzling light.

These robes or cloaks were of buffalo-calf skin about four feet in length, elaborately decorated with bead-work in stripes.

Jack noticed that, as Moseh was saying this, he was fingering the scrap of Indian bead-work he had inherited from his Manhattoe ancestors.

These leggins are sometimes very tastefully decorated with bead-work, particularly those of the women, and are provided with flaps or wings on either side.

She had come to teach me bead-work; I had already taken several lessons to while away the time, but found myself an awkward scholar.

Bead-work, the most ornate, expensive blankets and ribbons comprise the funeral shroud.

Their fringed and tasselled hunting-shirts were girded in by bead-worked belts, and the trappings of their horses were stained red and yellow.

Their hunting-shirts of buckskin or homespun were girded in by bead-worked belts, and the trappings of their horses were stained red and yellow.

Some were waking, others sleeping, but none were employed, though in several of the camps I saw the materials for baskets and bead- work.