Covered in thousands of tiny glass beads, this vest brings together geometric forms with figural representations of five men riding horseback against a white background. At the end of the 19th century, Lakota women embraced artistic materials acquired through trade with white settlers to create garments that communicated their own cultural identity. During this period, women’s beaded arts flourished and expanded upon the traditional practice of creating exclusively geometric designs by depicting figures. Here, the artist adorned a vest—a garment popularized by Euro-American settlers—with designs crafted using the lane stitch beading method in which eight to ten beads are strung together and then attached to the substrate with a single stitch.