Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected by Charles F. Nesler (1864-1930), probably between 1897 and 1904 when he worked as an inspector with the US Indian Service; donated to MAI by Charles Nesler in 1921.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Sioux
- Collector
- Charles F. Nesler, Non-Indian, 1864-1930
- Previous owner
- Charles F. Nesler, Non-Indian, 1864-1930
- Donor
- Charles F. Nesler, Non-Indian, 1864-1930
- Object Name
- Knife sheath
- Media/Materials
- Hide, horsehair, metal cones, glass bead/beads, porcupine quills
- Techniques
- Quilled (lane stitched), lazy/lane stitch beadwork , quill-wrapped (flat)
- Object Type
- Personal items
