Man's Vest
Lakota (Sioux), South Dakota
In the 1890s, Lakota women on reservations developed a new style of decoration in which entire objects were covered in beadwork. As women produced fully beaded moccasins and men's vests and even covered glass bottles in beads, it was said that Sioux women beaded everything that didn't move. Men's vests with pictorial designs of warriors, horses, buffalo, deer, elk, cowboys, and often the American flag were worn by Native men or sold to non-Indians.
ca. 1915, leather, beads.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Gift of Mrs. Neill Phillips, acc. NA.202.609
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