Knife Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Elkskin? sheath with shoulder band. Decorated with rows of dentalium shells and large red and blue beads. Fringe of blue, black and white beads strung on skin thongs. Band of connected strings of dentalia and beads. Photographed and published in conjunction with knife cat. no. 5417 (American Knives by Harold L. Peterson, p. 121, fig. 149) yet knife 5417 already has another sheath which fits it exactly. this was returned in 1979 as one of a group of stolen items, with the no. removed." Per Kate Duncan, 2-16-2005, this knife sheath is Northern Athapaskan, mid-19th century?, and may possibly relate to # E49135, a clothing set from Tanana River, Alaska? (not to # E1857 as she once had thought.)
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=3, retrieved 8-19-2012: During discussion with Phillip Arrow (Deg Hi'tan), Trimble Gilbert (Gwich'in), Eliza Jones (Koyukon) and Judy Woods (Koyukon) at the National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian, 5/17/2004-5/21/2004; also participating: Aron Crowell (NMNH), Kate Duncan (Arizona State University) and Suzi Jones (AMHA), this object is identified as moose hide knife sheath, probably worn for special ceremonies, and probably for a double edge knife or dagger with a double spiral split finial or volute handle.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 57, p. 80 in Van Kampen, Ukjese. 2012. The History of Yukon First Nations Art, Phd dissertation, Leiden University. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/18984 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Athabascan (Athabaskan) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET1843-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife Sheath
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 78 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 12.5 cm