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Date
1910 – 1920
Material
skin; sinew; glass
Catalogue Number
104.10.0031
Description
White rawhide knife sheath formed to fit the blade of a knife with wide beaded flap at one side curving to point at bottom. Beading worked on one side only. Wide band across top consists of large stepped orange triangles outlined with red, then blue, then black, sitting on bottom of band with purpl…
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Title
Knife Sheath
Date
1910 – 1920
Material
skin; sinew; glass
Dimensions
11.0 x 31.5 cm
Description
White rawhide knife sheath formed to fit the blade of a knife with wide beaded flap at one side curving to point at bottom. Beading worked on one side only. Wide band across top consists of large stepped orange triangles outlined with red, then blue, then black, sitting on bottom of band with purple sky above. Wide side flap beaded with purple background and four diagonal lines of orange outlined with black, and blue outlined with black, representing feathers? Top and curved edge outline with narrow edging of red and yellow beads. Triangular hole cut through at centre of flap, pocket for knife blade stitched with sinew. Inside of sheath pocket shows painting of pink and green outlined in black.
Subject
Indigenous
beadwork
hunting
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.10.0031
Images
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