 Dome-be-ah-ty had taught Anna beadwork, as it was customary for the knowledge to be passed from mothers and grandmothers to their daughters and granddaughters.Anna was highly skilled and won prizes at the annual Gallup Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial exhibition in Gallup, New Mexico, and at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California.Jones attended the rural Washita School, but left school after completing the eighth grade to care for her grandparents.