Beaded Lakota Dress at Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC | WASHINGTON — A beaded Lakota dress from 1900-1910 is displayed at the National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian Institution, in early October 2026. The dress is exhibited inside the museum's Mall building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Made in North Dakota or South Dakota from hide, glass beads and sinew, the dress's yoke is beaded with American flags, five-pointed stars, a shield and a cross. Lakota women on reservations incorporated such patriotic imagery into traditional beadwork during the late 180

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