This leaflet gives a very brief description of the geographic distribution of the Native American Plains Indians; the kinds of skins used traditionally by the Native American Plains Indians; the articles made from the skins; the methods of skin dressing, including mechanical actions and possible addition of substances such as brains, liver, fats, greases, meat broth, or vegetable products; the methods of tailoring; the preparation of sinew; traditional types of hide decoration (painting and embroidering with beads or porcupine quills); the European origin of glass beads used in hide decoration; the date beads began to be used (about 1750 in the East, about 1800 in the West, main development since 1850); the kinds of glass, metal, and bone beads used; other materials used for decoration; and the methods of using beads, mainly two sewing methods: the overlaid or spot stitch and the lazy stitch. The authors compiled the information from 16 referenced sources dating between 1889 and 1927.