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  2. Peyote stitch - Wikipedia

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    Native American beadwork began using glass beads when the Europeans brought over glass beads. The peyote stitch got its modern name from the Kiowa and Comanche Tribes in the 1800s. Modern Native American beadwork uses the peyote stitch in jewelry, objects, and traditional objects. [3]

  3. Brick stitch - Wikipedia

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    This is an off-loom technique perfected by Native Americans. It is a relative of another off-loom technique called peyote stitch or gourd stitch. [ 2 ] A brick stitch pattern can be worked as a peyote stitch pattern if turned through 90 degrees.

  4. Beadwork - Wikipedia

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    Native American beadwork, already established via the use of materials like shells, dendrite, claws, and bone, evolved to incorporate glass beads as Europeans brought them to the Americas beginning in the early 17th century. [20] [21] Native beadwork today heavily utilizes small glass beads, but artists also continue to use traditionally ...

  5. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Examples of contemporary Native American beadwork. Beadwork is a quintessentially Native American art form, but ironically uses beads imported from Europe and Asia. Glass beads have been in use for almost five centuries in the Americas.

  6. Native American jewelry - Wikipedia

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    Native beadwork continued to advance in the pre-Columbian era. Beads were made from hand-ground and filed turquoise, coral, and shell. Carved wood, animal bones, claws, and teeth were made into beads, which were then sewn onto clothing, or strung into necklaces. [6] [7] Turquoise is one of the dominant materials of Southwestern Native American ...

  7. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Textile arts and fiber arts include fabric that is flexible woven material, as well as felt, bark cloth, knitting, embroidery, [1] featherwork, skin-sewing, beadwork, and similar media. Textile arts are one of the earliest known industries. [1] Basketry is associated with textile arts. [2]

  8. Wampum - Wikipedia

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    Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. It includes white shell beads hand-fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam.

  9. Huichol art - Wikipedia

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    The Huichol have a long history of beading, making the beads from clay, shells, corals, seeds and more and using them to make jewelry and to decorate bowls and other items. The "modern" beadwork usually consists of masks and wood sculptures covered in small, brightly colored commercial beads fastened with wax and resin.

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