Hide knife sheath with beadwork on one side in spot or overlaid stitch: geometric patterns in blue, white and red. [LM 14/05/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: Hide knife sheath with beadwork on one side in spot or overlaid stitch: geometric patterns in blue, white and red. [LM 14/05/2007]
Long description: Panels of closely stitched beadwork at top and bottom of the sheath are linked by loose strings of beads. There is a triangular fringed tag at the bottom of the sheath with triangles of beadwork in red and black. Beads are stitched along the seams. [LM 14/05/2007]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Canada
Northern America > North America > Canada
Cultural groups: Blackfoot Confederacy
Person: Field collector Charles Alexander Pope; PRM source Christ Church, University of Oxford; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History; PRM source Department of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1865?, uncertain
Date collected: By 1865?
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1886, uncertain Donated: 1886, uncertain Found unentered: 2007
Materials and processes: Material Animal Skin, Material Bead, Material Animal Sinew, Material Yarn, Material Glass, Process Beadwork, Process Stitched
Dimensions: Length: max 445 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.21.1
Research and responses: For an account of the Charles A. Pope Collection, see Speaking for Themselves: The Pope Collection of Native American Artifacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum, by Lindsey Richardson (University of Oxford: M.Sc. dissertation in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 2001); copy in RDF (Collectors: Pope). [JC 6 1 2004]

Search terms: Bead, Tool, Weapon, Sheath, Knife