Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown, but said to have been collected circa 1870; formerly in the collection of Major General Alfred E. Bates (ca. 1841-1909, US Army cavalry officer and Army paymaster); inherited by his daughter Henrietta Bates Brooke (Mrs. Frederick Hiester Brooke, 1878-1967); donated to MAI by Mrs. Brooke in 1960 in memory of her father.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Sioux
- Previous owner
- Major General Alfred E. Bates, Non-Indian, ca. 1841-1909
- Henrietta Bates Brooke (Mrs. Frederick Hiester Brooke), Non-Indian, 1878-1967
- Donor
- Henrietta Bates Brooke (Mrs. Frederick Hiester Brooke), Non-Indian, 1878-1967
- Honoree
- Major General Alfred E. Bates, Non-Indian, ca. 1841-1909
- Object Name
- Knife sheath
- Media/Materials
- Hide, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Bead-wrapped , lazy/lane stitch beadwork
- Object Type
- Personal items
