Bobbin lace making pillow and paper patterns. Wood base padded with natural fiber stuffing and coved with tan cotton fabric. Paper lace pattern pinned to pillow with metal pins with lace in progress. Ten wood bobbins hang from work, wound with linen thread.

Tape lace linen doily; square with tape work in a tipi motif at center, joined by braids decorated with picots. Doily includes woven spider fillings and tape lace border.

Battenberg lace linen table cover. Circular net center with Battenberg lace edging. Tape work is joined with needle made spiders and eyelets with needle made buttonhole stitch and mesh fillings. Made by Dakota women at the Redwood Mission (Birch Coulee), Morton.

Dakota lace makers at Redwood Agency (Birch Coulee), Morton.

Janette (Jeannette) Crooks displaying Battenberg lace piece, c. 1900.

Lace doily made by Dakota women at Birch Coulee Mission, possibly as a result of the lace-making school, c.1890–1920.

Dakota lace makers at the Redwood Mission (Birch Coulee), Morton, 1897.

Lace makers at Leech Lake, 1906.

Sybil Carter, c.1890.

Sybil Carter with instructors and lace makers at Leech Lake, ca.1896.