Indian Knife And Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LABEL ON SPECIMEN, "J. SCOTT TO J. VARDEN." SEE P. 51 IN "BIRD QUILLWORK" BY NORMAN FEDER IN AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, SUMMER 1987, VOL 12, NO. 3 WHERE THE SHEATH IS DESCRIBED THUSLY: "A FAIRLY TYPICAL SANTEE STYLE KNIFE CASE. THE TOP HAS PORCUPINE QUILLS BUT THE BOTTOM IS ALL BIRD QUILL." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "KNIFE SHEATH.-MADE OF BUCKSKIN; ORNAMENTED WITH QUILL WORK AND TIN BANGLES. LENGTH, 9 1/4 INCHES; WIDTH, 3 INCHES. DAKOTA INDIANS (SIOUAN STOCK). 5,417. COLLECTED BY J. VARDEN." SEE SIMILAR KNIFE SHEATH, DAKOTA, CIRCA 1830, IN FIG. 59, P. 226 IN PEOPLES OF THE TWILIGHT, EUROPEAN VIEWS OF NATIVE MINNESOTA 1823 TO 1862, BY CHRISTIAN FEEST AND SYLVIA KASPRYCKI, AFTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESS, MN, 1999.
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 108 and described p. 365 in Gilman, Carolyn. 2003. Lewis and Clark across the divide. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. It is noted there about the knife that it "is hand-forged, in a style reminscent of "Tecumseh's dagger," a British presentation knife at Le Musee du Chateau de Ramezay, Montreal."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jan 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Missouri River, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Dakota (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5417-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife / Knife Sheath
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 23.49 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 8 cm