What is quillwork?

a.

soaking porcupine and bird quills with natural dyes and working them into surface patterns on other objects

b.

using a quill pen made from birds to paint ink symbols on bodies

c.

a type of sewing of the women of the Sioux tribe

d.

using a quill pen made from the feather of an eagle to draw tribal symbols on the walls of a teepee

Quillwork is a kind of embellishment or decoration for clothing and belongings characteristic of a certain North American Indian peoples. By using softened and dyed porcupine quills to make decorative and elaborative applied designs. Therefore, the answer is letter a. Quillwork never died out as an active art form in the Northern Plains. Some groups that had lost their quillwork tradition have been able to recover the art form.