References:
Plate 14, Figure 1. Beaded Hat Band. Tsimsyan.
Plate 13, Figure 2. Bead Motif on Cradle Board. Kootenay.
Plate 15, Figure 3. Bead Design on Carrying
Strap. Kootenay.
Plate 13, Figure 4. Bead Necklace. Lower Thompson.
Plate 15, Figure 5. Bead Necklace, Snake
Design. Lower Thompson.
Plate 13, Figure 6. Rhythmic fringe of Bead
and Dog Skin. Lower Thompson.
Plate 13, Figure 7. Beaded Ear Ornament. Thompson.
Plate 13, Figure 8. Beaded Ear Ornament. Thompson.
Plate 13, Figure 9. Beaded Design on Cloth
. Head Band. Shuswap.
Plate 13, Figurel0. Beaded Leggings. Thompson.
Plate 13, Figure 11. Bead Design on Doeskin Bag. Sekani.
Plate 13, Figure 12. Bead Design on Skin Mitten. Sekani.
Plate 13, Figure 13. Conventional Designs for
use in Beadwork. Thompson.
Plate 14, Figure 1. Beaded Tobacco Pouch. Sekani.
Plate 14, Figure &. Porcupine Quill Slave
Bands. Dene.
Plate 14, Figure 3. Bead sling pouch. Kootenay.
Plate 14, Figure 5. Bead designs on Chief's
Feather Head-dresses. Okanagan.

QUILL AND _BEADWORK

For an unknown period quill work was generally practised by
tribal women throughout the continent of North America. So far
as is at present known it is a purely American art found nowhere
else in the world. Lavishly employed for the decoration of buck-
skin garments, head bands, belts, bags, moccasins, gloves and
other purposes, each region of this vast area had its own styles,
colours and sewing methods. As is the case with coiled and im-
bricated baskets in British Columbia the workmanship is so charac-
teristic that experts can tell not only to what tribe or group of
tribes certain designs belonged, but more or less the date to
which the designs should be assigned.

The Upper Thompson Tribe considered quill embroidery as of
earlier origin than coiled basketry, pointing out that the "bead-
ing" so general in the earlier decoration of these baskets is
merely an imitation of certain types of quill work.

Taking the Thompson Tribe as an illustration, attempts to
express accepted realistic ideas by quills or beads led to the

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