Beaded knife sheath

Titles: Beaded knife sheath (Supplied title)

Description: Leather knife sheath covered with cotton-velvet and bound with red wool tape. Binding also forms a loop handle at opening and extends past fringe at base point. Front side features applied loom-woven panel of multicolored glass seed beads in geometric designs on white bead background. Integrated fringe on bottom of sheath consists of eleven thread loops of white, turquoise and blue glass seed beads each terminating in a red wool tassel. Made by the Dakota or Ojibwe Indians.

Dates

• Approximately 1860 - Approximately 1901 (Date range based on time Bishop Whipple spent in Minnesota working for various government commissions for Indian Affairs) (Creation)

Creation

• collected by: Whipple, Henry Benjamin

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1833

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of the Sibley House Association of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 12 1/2 inches length
• 3 1/2 inches width
• 2 1/4 inches length (average fringe length)

Subjects

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