Beaded Objects

Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe artist Beverly Gouge began beading at the age of nine. She had beaded caps for ten years when she completed this object for sale.

Ho-Chunk artist Linda Lucero of Black River Falls, Wisconsin modified a pair of Reebok baby shoes by attaching glass and bronze faceted beads. In doing this, she gave a ubiquitous commercial product a specific ethnic identity.

An unknown Ojibwe maker outfitted this powder horn, a European trade good, with a cloth shoulder strap embellished with exquisite beadwork, giving a Native American identity to a non-Native object.