Springville Herald | 1947-01-16 | Page 10 | Bead Shortage Handicaps Indian Business

BEAD SHORTAGE HANDICAPS INDIAN BSINESS . A war-born bead shortage is seriously handicapping Utah Indians In-dians in their efforts to get back into the business of making beaded bead-ed gloves, hunting vests and tribal trib-al regalia. Only a trickle of bright colored .beads now reach America from Europe. During the war bead imports ceased entirely. Full Indian tribal regalia calls for the use of thousands of beads and due to their lack, Utah Indi-i Indi-i are short n Indian costumes j-trom Duchesne county, it ;s re" , Ported that there are only four 1 1 ,mPlete dian costumes ; left on the Uintah and Ouray ln-i ln-i dlan reservation. This is explained :m the fact that when high rank-g rank-g Indian pass to thf Happy I m full tribal regalia. With no ; beads available to mm V clothes, the nresent n W pass to t vm PreSont cstumes will pass to the grave with their own-eis own-eis as burial clothes. Even in Z"s modern age, Red nien who rv heir dead are fearful of ,