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KIOWA BEADWORK

KIOWA BEADWORK

Working from carefully drawn sketches, Tonepahhote creates a color-coded diagram of the finished design. The diagram plots the color of the beads for each line of the design, allowing Tonepahhote to build up the design in horizontal layers on her loom.

Tonepahhote’s loom was hand-made by her son-in-law, Ryan McDonnell (Seminoledescendant) Before she begins any beadwork, she must set the warp (vertical) threads on her loom, keeping them separate with a single weft (horizontal) row of beads at the top and at bottom of the loom. In these spaces in between the warp threads, she will string her beads, line by line

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