Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI from an unknown source in 1949.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)
- Object Name
- Knife sheath
- Media/Materials
- Hide, glass bead/beads, porcupine quills
- Techniques
- Lazy/lane stitch beadwork , quill-wrapped (flat)
- Object Type
- Personal items
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