Sheath For Scalp Knife
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr A. J. Comfort
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SCALP-KNIFE SHEATH. ... LOAN: DENVER MUSEUM 3/15/65. RETURNED 10/6/65. INVENTORIED 1978."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 8, p. 272 in 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. Identified as single knife case with applique quillwork. Feest notes there that none of the sheaths of this type known are well documented, and "... attributions have ranged widely, from Huron to Northern Ojibwa."
label: Notes
content: Listed in AMM catalog as #354, Two knife sheaths for scalping knives wrought with beads.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Sisseton, Marshall County, South Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin) (?)
label: Culture
content: Northeast Indian (?)
label: Culture
content: Great Lakes Indian (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8654-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife Sheath
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 27 cm