Beaded Knife Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Made of tanned deerskin painted in red and yellow bands on front side, with attached belt thong and, at opening, band of loom woven multi-colored beadwork in pattern of diamonds and triangles, with 7 pendant stands of red and white beads. Illus. p. 91, # 412 in Art of the Great Lakes Indians, Flint Institute of Arts, 1973, where it is attributed to the Chippewa c. 1835".
label: Notes
content: The red paint applied to this artifact resembles the red paint on some artifacts in the George Catlin collection (which was possibly applied by Catlin himself.) Therefore it is possible this object may be from the Catlin collection?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Woodlands (Northeast), United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET1085-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife Sheath