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Object Number
972-45-10/51882
Display Title
Small leather knife sheath with heavily beaded collar
Descriptions
Object Description
Small leather knife sheath with heavily beaded collar. Beading in the spot-stitch technique--closely worked with small transclusent seed beads of glass linear and chevron designs with metal bell on leather thong. 9.75 x 4.25 inches (length x greatest width)
Inventory Description
Leather sheath, tapered, beaded top cuff, edged with metal tinklers
Classification
- Sheath
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Crow?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Additional Geographic Terms
Southern Plains
Materials
Leather, Bead, Metal tinkler, Fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 24.77 x 10.8 cm (9 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
972-45-10/51882
Provenance
Collector
Grandmother of Mrs. G. Prescott Low
(1890)
Donor
Mrs. G. Prescott Low
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