The Plains Indians were a mobile culture, relying on horses that the Spanish brought with them to the Plains. Being highly aesthetic people, the Plains Indians decorated the bags that they made with designs sewn out of glass seed beads that they got in trade with Anglos who came through their territory. The bags were used to carry tobacco as well as pipes. Note that there is a “doorway” design in the dangles that probably represented something. Pink beads are always desirable in the marketplace.