Beaded Sheath, c.1890

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Beaded Sheath, c.1890
Beaded Sheath, c.1890
Artifact/Collection Number: 
AC 2002.2_5
Location: 
Shelf 32 Box 4

A tan leather knife sheath decorated with leather tassels with metal clasps and intricate pink, black, yellow, green, white and blue beadwork. This object is believed to be from the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes at Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho and belonged to Zatae Longsdorff, class of 1887. 

Decade: 
1890-1899
Origin: 
Gift of Enid Straw, 1968 and 1975
Groups and Organizations: 
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
People: 
Longsdorff, Zatae
Subject: 
sheath
bead work
Native Americans
Format: 
Miscellaneous