Knife sheath
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- Date created
- 1982-1983
- Culture/People
- Gwich'in (Kutchin)
- Artist/Maker
- Louise Peter, Gwich'in (Kutchin), 1914-2002
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Dinjii Zhuu Enjit Museum Shop
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the museum shop at Dinjii Zhuu Enjit Museum (Fort Yukon, Alaska) in 1983; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Place
- Fort Yukon; Doyon Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- See related items
- Gwich'in (Kutchin)
- Personal items
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/626
- Barcode
- 260626.000
- Object Type
- Personal items
- Object Name
- Knife sheath
- Media/Materials
- Moose hide/skin, porcupine quills, glass bead/beads, clothing snaps, cotton cloth
- Techniques
- Stitched, edge beaded , quill embroidered
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 9.0 x 0.9 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_276793