Sheath

Museum number:

2-66149

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Accession number:

Acc.3445

Description:

For knife. Leather, one side fully beaded with green, red, and white glass seed beads in geometric design. Narrow leather strip attached at bottom, few pieces of red dyed porcupine quills around strap. Yellow glass beads attached at ends of strap.

Donor:

Betty Ann Gruberg

Collection place:

Great Plains, North America

Verbatim coll. place:

; Great Plains

Culture or time period:

Plains and Prairie tribes

Collector:

George M. Firestone

Collection date:

1927-1933

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.9 Multiple Utility

Context of use:

Knife sheath.

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

length 16.5 centimeters and width 5 centimeters

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