Auction: American Indian & Ethnographic Arts - 2442Location: BostonDate / Time: January 24, 2009 10:00AM
Description:
Eastern Plains Beaded Buffalo Hide Knife Sheath, Dakota, c. mid-19th century, with rawhide liner, partially beaded on both sides with white, black, and "pony trader" blue pony beaded geometric designs, including horse tracks on one side, the central panels with multicolored abstract foliate devices in seed beads, included with lot is an early knife, lg. 9 1/2 in.
Literature: Illustrated in The John Painter Collection "Window on the Past," p. 70.
Estimate $12,000-16,000