Pre-reservation Sioux Knife Sheath



Early Northern Plains Indian, pre-reservation period, Lakota Sioux bead decorated knife sheath with trade knife.    Good condition, as-found, showing ethnographic use wear and bead loss at expected areas (upper edge, lower tip, tin cone losses).  Buffalo hide lined with native tanned covering decorated with glass trade beads.  Circa 1870's. 



Dealer Brant Mackley Gallery
Date: 1870's
Origin Northern Plains
Artist/Maker Lakota Sioux
Measurements 9 1/4 in. (sheath only) 10 3/4 total with knife
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Website http://www.brantmackley.com
Price $6,800
Contact Brant Mackley, 717-554-2176 or  brant@bmgart.com

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