Your Custom Text Here
A rawhide liner, wrapped with brain-tanned hide, decorated on the recto side with sinew-sewn seed beads. The upper hemisphere consists of two rows of upside down yellow-red triangles bordered in black. The lower hemisphere consists of floating crosses in a similar color scheme with a central undulating red form trimmed in yellow. The hemispheres are separated by a row of tin cones. The sheath also has a beaded drop with a twisted hide belt loop with a wooden toggle. On the backside of the sheath is an old collection sticker which reads “INDIAN / KNIFE SHEATH / FROM SIOUX INDIAN / STANDING ROCK / 1879 DAKOTA”.
16” long (overall); 10” long and 3” wide (excl. fringe)
Published: Jason Baldwin, Early Knives & Beaded Sheaths of the American Frontier (West Olive, MI: Early American Artistry – Trading Company, 1997), p. 34
#50839
A rawhide liner, wrapped with brain-tanned hide, decorated on the recto side with sinew-sewn seed beads. The upper hemisphere consists of two rows of upside down yellow-red triangles bordered in black. The lower hemisphere consists of floating crosses in a similar color scheme with a central undulating red form trimmed in yellow. The hemispheres are separated by a row of tin cones. The sheath also has a beaded drop with a twisted hide belt loop with a wooden toggle. On the backside of the sheath is an old collection sticker which reads “INDIAN / KNIFE SHEATH / FROM SIOUX INDIAN / STANDING ROCK / 1879 DAKOTA”.
16” long (overall); 10” long and 3” wide (excl. fringe)
Published: Jason Baldwin, Early Knives & Beaded Sheaths of the American Frontier (West Olive, MI: Early American Artistry – Trading Company, 1997), p. 34
#50839