Knife Sheath

45-15-925

From: Dakotas

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-925
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Brule
Provenience Dakotas
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buffalo Hide | Bead | Quill | Skin
Description

Buffalo hide knife sheath. Face solidly beaded: pink ground, design consists of four pairs of green blocks with red centers. Border of navy triangles with yellow central line. Pendant of quilled buckskin thongs with small quilled sack, possibly an amulet.

Length 25 cm
Width 6.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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