quill-work

Sometimes the Indian will deck his "medicine-bundle" with fanciful trinkets and quill-work At other times the "bundle" is kept forever out of the sight of all uninterested persons, and is altogether unadorned.

Indian Why Stories 1915

Sometimes the Indian will deck his "medicine-bundle" with fanciful trinkets and quill-work At other times the "bundle" is kept forever out of the sight of all uninterested persons, and is altogether unadorned.

Indian Why Stories Frank Bird Linderman 1903

Few of us had won ours yet, and his was man's size, of white deerskin and colored quill-work.

The Trail Book Mary Hunter Austin 1901

The women wore short gowns, or long, full jackets, and petticoats; and their moccasins were like those of squaws, ornamented with beautiful quill-work.

Heroes of the Middle West The French Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

The faces of many girls were brilliant with vermilion; others were blacked, their robes, leggings, and skin dresses glittering with beads and quill-work.

The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Henry Inman 1868

I do not ask you to send me _The Una_, for the dollar must go with the request, and the dollar has yet to be earned by _quill-work_, a task quite as hard as was work when a child at the _quill-wheel_, winding yarn from the reel.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

All ignorant of the poor maniac's arrival, for the news had not yet spread, the mother of Little Beaver sat embroidering a moccasin with dyed quill-work.

The Crew of the Water Wagtail 1859

Over his shoulders he slung a powder-horn and shot-pouch, the latter tastefully embroidered with dyed quill-work, A pair of deer-skin mittens, having a little bag for the thumb, and a large bag for the fingers, completed his costume.

The Young Fur Traders 1859

Next he drew on his little legs a pair of blue cloth leggings, which were ornamented with beads, and clothed his feet in new moccasins, embroidered, like the coat, with quill-work.

The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood 1859

Over his shoulders he slung a powder-horn and shot-pouch, the latter tastefully embroidered with dyed quill-work.

The Young Fur Traders 1859