Knife And Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Steel knife with bone handle, wrapped with sinew; blade double edged, handle flat butterfly-shaped pomel; sheath of buckskin; 2-lobed at top; plain on reverse, but covered with sewn porcupine quillwork on obverse; decorative designs in form of crosses, stars, rectangles, and other geometrical figures in complementary colors. Object described by Bushnell in The American Anthropologist. Technique also referred to by Orchard in publication of Heye Museum, Vol. 4, No. 1, see Plate 1, pages 34 and 35." Sheath was formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 9, case 21. Exhibit label described it as "Loom-woven quillwork beautifies knife sheath; Cree, period 1830."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cree, Northern
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E360063-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife / Knife Sheath