Knife and sheath
- Date created
- 1880
- Culture/People
- Turtle Mountain Chippewa
- Collector
- Major John H. Waugh, Non-Indian, 1853-1894
- Previous owner
- Major John H. Waugh, Non-Indian, 1853-1894
- Edna B. Waugh, Non-Indian, 1883-1967
- J. Harold Waugh (John Harold Waugh), Non-Indian, 1878-1956
- Ella Hammond Waugh (Mrs. John H. Waugh), Non-Indian, 1853-1946
- Honoree
- Major John H. Waugh, Non-Indian, 1853-1894
- Collection History
- Collected by Major John H. Waugh (1853-1894, U.S. Indian agent at the Turtle Mountain and Fort Totten/Devil's Lake reservations from 1890 to 1893); inherited by his widow, Ella Hammond Waugh (1853-1946), and his children, John Harold Waugh (1878-1956) and Edna B. Waugh (1883-1967); lent to MAI by Ella Waugh, John Waugh, and Edna Waugh in 1941 in memory of Major Waugh and never reclaimed.
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- Place
- Turtle Mountain Reservation; Rolette County; North Dakota; USA
- See related items
- Turtle Mountain Chippewa
- Personal items
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 20/4607
- Barcode
- 204607.000
- Object Type
- Personal items
- Object Name
- Knife and sheath
- Media/Materials
- Wood, metal knife, rawhide, glass bead/beads, brass tacks/bosses
- Techniques
- Loom beadwork
- Record ID
- NMAI_218601