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Gun case
Museum number:
2-4848
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020004848
Alternate number:
33 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
Skin, gun case; smoked buckskin; fringed; edged with red strouding; beaded in blue, yellow and old rose glass beads. Original field catalogue entry: "Guncase from Bear-paw battle ground.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Bear's Paw battle ground, Blaine County, Montana
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1876-1897
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Gun cases
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 99.3 centimeters
Legacy documentation: