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The red lines are quillwork, made with porcupine quills. This technique was used for hundreds of years before beadwork became popular in the 1800s with glass beads from Venice.
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These kinds of triangles are called step triangles.
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The dark blue shapes are called buffalo tracks, space or part-between.
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Tripe design.
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“Two-color, elongated diamond shapes are usually called the Feather, Whirlwind or Breath of Life design.”
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Four directions
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Women of several tribes started making moccasins with beaded soles in the 1880s.
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“Twisted design” (beads in diagonal checker rows)
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Box designs. The squares often represented bags.
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Boxes with inverted triangles were common in the Shoshone tribe, therefore known as Shoeshone design.
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All images and information from Wyoming State Museum’s Beautiful Shoes (2012) which also explains different techniques, and the same museum’s moccasin page at Göögle Arts & Culture.