quillwork

[ kwil-wurk ]

noun

a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
an American Indian handicraft or utility item decorated in this manner.

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How to use quillwork in a sentence

This must have been a beautiful example of the buffalo-skin tipi, new and white, decorated with quillwork and tufts of hair.
Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi | David Ives Bushnell

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