Culture/People:

Cree  Search this

Previous owner:

Stephen H. P. Pell (Stephen Hyatt Pelham Pell), Non-Indian, 1874-1950  Search this

Object Name:

Knife sheath

Media/Materials:

Hide, horsehair, porcupine quills

Techniques:

Quill woven/loomed quillwork, quill embroidered, quill-wrapped (flat)

Object Type:

Personal items

Place:

Western Canada; Canada (inferred)

Collection History:

Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Stephen Hyatt Pelham Pell (1874-1950, a historian, collector, and founder of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum in Ticonderoga, New York); acquired by MAI through an exchange with Stephen H.P. Pell in 1931.

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Catalog Number:

18/923

Barcode:

180923.000

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Cree

Personal items

Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6e1e7c11a-bc07-4053-9e5b-7c3cbe2cd9eb

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:NMAI_193687