Artist:Eastern, Sioux
Medium: Rawhide, buckskin, porcupine quills, tin, sinew, thread
Geograhical Locations:
Dates:early 19th century
Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. (24.1 x 8.3 cm)
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Exhibitions:
Accession Number: 50.67.41
Image: 50.67.41_PS1.jpg,
Catalogue Description: Knife sheath made of a folded piece of rawhide with quill work embroidery along the edge in alternating lengths of red, blue, black and yellow. A piece of soft buckskin is wrapped around the top as a panel or cuff. The added piece is decorated with quillwork; a white field with alternating triangles of blue and black, underlined with orange (formerly red?) arranged in rows. The top and bottom of this cuff are decorated with narrow borders composed of red and white triangles. The entire pattern is outlined with a thin blue line. The narrow borders continue part way around to the back of the sheath, but the quill work pattern does not. Tin cones dangle from the top two corners of the sheath from hide thongs wrapped with red and blue quills and from the bottom of the cuff on thongs wrapped with red quills. These thongs are threaded through the tin cones to form decorative loops that protect their ends. There is a native repair on the reverse side of the sheath.