Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Mohawk (Kanienʼkehá꞉ka) Search this
Object Type:
Knife Sheath
Place:
Oka, Quebec, Canada, North America
Accession Date:
1875
Notes:
FROM CARD: "ORNAMENTED, PORCUPINE QUILLS ETC."
Main body of knife sheath appears to be made from a snapping turtle tail.
Discussed on p. 273 of Feest, Christian. 2002. Quilled Knife Cases from Northeastern North America. In Anthropology, History, and American Indians: Essays in Honor of William Curtis Sturtevant, edited by William L. Merrill and Ives Goddard, pp. 263 – 278. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 44. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office. It is noted there as an asymmetrical knife sheath of reptile skin with a quilled buckskin cuff and quill-wrapped leather fringes along the curved edge of the case.