Knife Sheath
| Object Number: | 45-15-938 |
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| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Plains Indian |
| Provenience: | Great Plains (Plain) |
| Culture Area: | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Rawhide Buckskin Bead Quill |
| Length: | 33.2 cm |
| Width: | 6 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945 |
Description
Rawhide covered with buckskin, face solidly beaded. Design on the top consists of two red triangles edged with green blocks. The lower section is decorated with three diagonal red bards, light blue ground. Bead wrapped buckskin pendants from each end of quilled suspension thong and point, a cartridge attached. A little quilling on buckskin thongs.
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