Beads through time
Designs, meaning, and community
100
These natural materials were among the first items used in Indigenous beadwork, long before small seed beads were available.
Shells, Cones, and Porcupine Quills
100
This beadwork style features shapes such as diamonds, triangles, and zigzags.
Geometric beadwork
200
What does the colour Red represent
Strength
200
Placing a differently coloured bead in a design represents this important teaching.
Imperfection or that beauty does not need to be perfect
300
What is the oldest type of bead
A) Porcupine Quills
B) Cones
C) Shells
D) Both B and C
C) Shells
100,000 years, making them some of the oldest known forms of jewellery and symbolic expression.
300
Moccasins