A Blackfoot Beaded Hide Knife Sheath

of typical form, composed of sturdy commercially tanned leather, sinew sewn in translucent and opaque shades of burgundy, pink, gold, pumpkin, light and dark blue glass beadwork, with concentric arches, the outer edge "stitched" in wire.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1998

Wardwell, Allen. Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1998: p. 59, no. 58