A SIOUX BEADED HIDE KNIFE SHEATH. c. 1870 ... (Total: 3 Items)

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A SIOUX BEADED HIDE KNIFE SHEATH

c. 1870
sinew sewn and lane-stitched in classic bead colors, decorated on the front with small geometric motifs, trimmed with metal cones inserted with yellow-dyed horsehair, with tag attached on the reverse, inscribed Indian Chief Sitting Bull gave these, knife sheath, and money bag to Major C. Howell at Rose Bud agency ...; together with a Sioux beaded leather strike-a-light pouch, sinew sewn and lane-stitched in various shades of glass seed beads, with typical geometric motifs; and a photograph of Sitting Bull by O. S. Goff, among other ephemera, mounted and framed

Lengths: sheath, 10 1/4 inches; pouch, 4 1/2 inches

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