Knife Sheath, Ornamented
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Franklin B. Hough
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ORNAMENTED, PORCUPINE QUILLS ETC."
label: Notes
content: Main body of knife sheath appears to be made from a snapping turtle tail.
label: Notes
content: Discussed on p. 273 of Feest, Christian. 2002. Quilled Knife Cases from Northeastern North America. In Anthropology, History, and American Indians: Essays in Honor of William Curtis Sturtevant, edited by William L. Merrill and Ives Goddard, pp. 263 – 278. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 44. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office. It is noted there as an asymmetrical knife sheath of reptile skin with a quilled buckskin cuff and quill-wrapped leather fringes along the curved edge of the case.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jul 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oka, Quebec, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Mohawk (Kanienʼkehá꞉ka)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004245
label: USNM Number
content: E18814-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife Sheath