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: "LOAN: DENVER MUSEUM 3/15/65 KNIFE ON EXHIBIT, HALL 11, UNIT 23. INVENTORIED 1978. RETURNED 10/6/65. 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: "THE SHEATH PROPER IS ALL BIRD WITH ORANGE PORCUPINE QUILLS ON THE FRINGES. MADE FROM AN OLD PAINTED PARFLECHE, WHICH LOOKS CHEYENNE OR EARLY SIOUX IN STYLE." 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: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Jun 2025
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)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5418-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife / Knife Sheath