Knife; leather with horizontal rows of blue and white beads on one side.
Donor:
Francis C. Hutchens and Mrs. Francis C. Hutchens
Collection place:
Nebraska
Verbatim coll. place:
Nebraska
Culture or time period:
Teton Dakota
Collector:
Frank B. Hutchens
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1967
Context of use:
Shape of sheath appears to be to contain a skinning knife of the "Green River type" (att. by D. Finster, 4-28-69). Collected in Nebraska from Indians being relocated by the government.