- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Knife-sheath of rawhide with beadwork decoration.
- Long description
- Knife-sheath of rawhide, the front covered with beadwork in lane stitch. Geometric beadwork design in light blue, red, yellow, white and dark blue glass beads. Chain of iron links for suspension. [LM 14/05/2007]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Ute
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1954
- Materials and processes
- Material Bead, Material Iron Metal, Material Animal Rawhide Skin, Material Glass, Process Beadwork, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Length: max 370 mm inc chain, Length: max 275 mm sheath
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1954.9.44 Other numbers: Beasley no. LB. 6, 1.2.1931
- Research and responses
The Blackmore Museum was formed by William Blackmore (1827-1878), mainly through his own visits to the USA between 1863 and 1878. I have therefore added William Blackmore as possibly the field collector for this record.
See Taylor, C. 1987. William Blackmore: a 19th-century Englishman’s contribution to American Indian ethnology. In C.F. Feest (eds) Indians and Europe: an interdisciplinary collection of essays. Aachen: Rader Verlag, pp. 321-336. [Dan Hicks 28/08/2012]
Beasley numbers probably refer to the date on which Beasley acquired an object. [CW 20/7/2000]
1954.9.44
Knife-sheath of rawhide with beadwork decoration.
1954.9.44
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