Few or no disk beads were made by the Miwok. They obtained the discoidal clam shell beads chiefly from the people living to the north, while olive shell disks and long tubular beads came from the south. Apparently they themselves regularly made only abalone (Haliotis) shell ornaments, and chains of whole olive shells and other univalves.

Beads and shells were employed in necklaces, belts, bandoliers, and shell ropes. No leg or ankle bands were made. The names of these several articles are as follows: necklace, hü'le (P, N), hü'lu (C); belt, tē'pa (P, N), pa'tca (C), lu'ta (C); wrist band, nawu'tta (P, N); bandolier, ta'ime (C); shell rope, kolo'asi (C). All these were extensively used as adornments for dances and ceremonies, and as decorations for corpses.