A sheath made with brain-tanned hide, decorated with sinew-sewn seed beads. The sheath has a tapered form with a lozenge-shaped tail. The tail, along with the upper and lower sections of the sheath are beaded. The main portion of the sheath has matching beaded blocks in which a stepped green diamond is bordered in pink and navy. The shape sits on a white ground and is flanked on the edges by a single lane in which sequential pink diagonal lines sit on a blue field. The tail has a cross-box-cross motif executed in red. The box is yellow. The motif is surrounded by a white field and a similar border as above. Accompanying the sheath is a dag knife with a forged steel blade and a full tang. The blade is stamped with “Win Hill & Co, York Cast Steel”. The blade is secured with wood handles which are secured by brass rivets.

20” long and 4.25” wide (sheath); 14.25" long and 2.5" wide (knife); accompanying the sheath is a custom stand

Ex Tommy Haas, UT (sheath); ex Floyd Ritter, MO (knife)

Published: Jason Baldwin, Early Knives & Beaded Sheaths of the American Frontier (West Olive, MI: Early American Artistry – Trading Company, 1997), p. 34.

#50923 and 50935