SIOUX HUNKAPAPA KNIFE AND CASE LATE 19 th C ( 1880-1890 )

Description

SIOUX HUNKPAPA KNIFE AND CASE
Sheath in green leather, rawhide covered with tanned skin and beaded on two floors of seedbeads, typical among the
SIOUX.
On the upper dark vertical pink and blue. Below a row of pewter cones.
Below are rows of light blue,red, yellow beads and a row of light blue and blue triangular patterns two pink and dark blue beaded braids ending in pewter cones with red horsehair.
Traditional milking knife, wooden handle fixed by three large brass rivets.
Late 19 th century piece.