Knife Sheath

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Datec. 1875
MediumLeather with rawhide, glass beads, and tin cone dangles
DimensionsOverall (with fringe): 18 1/2 × 2 3/4 × 1/4 in. (47 × 7 × 0.6 cm) Overall (without fringe): 10 in. × 2 3/4 in. × 1/4 in. (25.4 × 7 × 0.6 cm)
Credit LineTransferred from the Knox Hall of Natural History, Hamilton College
Object number1984.542
Not on view
Description"Knife sheath, solidly beaded, decorated w/ tin cones and fringed."

Additional Details

Exhibition History 2011
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Learning to Look: Hamilton's Cabinets, Galleries and Museums Past, Present and Future," September 15 - December 16, 2011 (no cat.).
Provenance 1984: Hamilton College (Emerson Gallery), by transfer from the Anthropology Department;
by 1979 - 1984: Hamilton College (Anthropology Department), by transfer from the Knox Hall of Natural History;
by 1925: Hamilton College (Knox Hall of Natural History), by gift from an unknown donor (research pending).
Inscribed Inscribed in ink on verso: E104 [with strike-through]; in ink on verso: NAPl / 16 [l is lower case L]
Knife sheath
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with rawhide, glass beads, and sinew
Object number: 1984.543
Knife sheath
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Rawhide with brass tacks, glass seed beads, and red paint
Object number: 1984.541
Moccasins
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with glass beads, porcupine quill, dyed horsehair-filled tin cone dangles, and cotton cloth
Object number: 1984.540a-b
Awl case
Date: unknown
Medium: Leather, porcupine quill, feathers, tin cones, and glass beads
Object number: 1984.535
Fragment of a beaded loop
Date: unknown
Medium: Leather and glass beads
Object number: 1984.536
Club
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Stone, wood, leather, and glass beads
Object number: 1984.544
Fragment of a Beaded Loop
Date: unknown
Medium: Leather; blue and white glass beads
Object number: 1984.537
Pipebag
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with sinew, porcupine quill, yarn, and glass beads
Object number: 1984.533
Club
Date: unknown
Medium: Leather, wood, stone, and glass beads
Object number: 1984.547
© Jeffrey Gibson. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College…
Jeffrey Gibson
Date: 2015
Medium: Glass and plastic beads, tin cones, steel and brass studs, nylon fringe, and artificial sinew on repurposed wool army blanket, mounted on repurposed canvas punching bag with steel chain
Object number: 2016.5
Shirt decoration
Date: unknown
Medium: Tanned hide, glass beads, and horse or cow tail
Object number: 1984.553
Photograph by John Bentham.
Date: c. 1870-75
Medium: Leather with dentalium shells and trade beads
Object number: 1984.456