Knife Sheath

PROVENANCE

James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk
Sotheby's, New York, May 8, 2006, lot 212 (sold for $66,000)
Ziff Family Collection, New York, NY

RELATED EXAMPLES

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Cat. No. T-8654 – See: I. Goddard and W.L. Merrill, American Indians: Essays in Honor of William Curtis Sturtevant, Washington: Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 44, 2002, pgs. 263-278, for a knife case in the typical Lorrette-Huron style, quill-decorated on blackened deer hide, bordered with dyed deer hair and tin cones. This rare form of knife case is designed to be fastened to a belt

Museum fur Volkerkunde, Basel, Switzerland, Cat. No. Iva39 – See: Ibid, for a knife case collected in Quebec in 1825, by Lukas Vischer

Berne Historical Museum, Berne, Germany, Cat. No. Po 74.403.19 – See: Judy Thomspon, The North American Indian Collection, A Catalogue, Berne: Berne Historical Museum, 1977, for a pouch in the typical Lorette-Huron style, quill-decorated on blackened deer hide, bordered with dyed deer hair and tin cones