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A steel knife with a bone carved handle and its hide sheath highly decorated in geometric design with glass beads, porcupine and bird quills

Knife and Sheath

Red River Cree
Manitoba

ca. 1840

Knife: steel, bone. Sheath: hide, porcupine and bird quills, glass beads

height: 11 ½"
width: 3"

Inventory # CW4314-119

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acquired by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON

PROVENANCE

Ken Buller, Ontario, Canada, acquired from Father Edmond Buller in the early 1960s
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, Ontario
Private Collection, Toronto, Ontario

RELATED EXAMPLE

The British Museum, London , Cat. No. 1949 AM 22.134 - See: The Spirit Sings, Glenbow Museum, Mclelland and Stewart, 1987, pg. 82, pl. P51

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