Collection history unknown; said to have been obtained from Chief Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotanka, Hunkpapa Lakota, ca. 1831-1890) in 1870, but this is unlikely; acquired by H.F. Spencer, a trader, at an unknown date; subsequently in the collection of Abel E. Brooks (1833-1917, a renowned collector of Civil War firearms); acquired by George Heye from an unknown source in 1906.
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