Case

Museum number:
2-4916
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
101 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
Heavy buckskin; floral design on one side; geometric on other in beading; tin cone fringe; quilled at base of fringe. Original catalogue entry: "Sioux knife case".
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Dakota
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1876-1898
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Context of use:
Probably a case for scissors.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 22 centimeters
Loans:
S1977-1978 #39: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (February 23, 1978–April 11, 1978) and S1979-1980 #32: Merritt College/Maurice Wolfe (January 14, 1980–May 6, 1980)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Case, accession number 2-4916, described as Heavy buckskin; floral design on one side; geometric on other in beading; tin cone fringe; quilled at base of fringe. Original catalogue entry: "Sioux knife case".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Case, accession number 2-4916, described as Heavy buckskin; floral design on one side; geometric on other in beading; tin cone fringe; quilled at base of fringe. Original catalogue entry: "Sioux knife case".

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