Knife sheath
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by George Gustav Heye from an unknown source in London, England, in 1937.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- 1870-1890
- Catalog Number
- 19/6330
- Barcode
- 196330.000
- Culture/People
- Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- MAI agent
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- Object Type
- Personal items
- Object Name
- Knife sheath
- Media/Materials
- Hide, porcupine quills
- Techniques
- Quilled (lane stitched)
- Place
- Plains; USA, Canada (inferred)
- See related items
- Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Personal items
- Record ID
- NMAI_209795
- Usage
- CC0
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