Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; acquired by New York congressman John H. Starin (1825-1909) at an unknown date and exhibited at his Glen Island Museum of Natural History and resort in New Rochelle, New York, before 1910; auctioned with other items from the Glen Island Museum in 1921 and purchased by MAI representatives at the auction.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)
- Previous owner
- John H. Starin, Non-Indian, 1825-1909
- Glen Island Museum of Natural History
- Object Name
- Guncase
- Media/Materials
- Moose hide/skin, wool cloth, metal bell/bells, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Sewn, appliquéd, overlay beadwork, fringed
- Object Type
- Firearms and accessories
