Crow Beaded Hide Rifle Scabbard

of classic tapering form, composed of finely tanned hide, sinew sewn with glass beadwork in outline white and other numerous colors against a green ground, with pairs of triangles on each side of the barrel, the butt with parallel bands enclosing a panel with a bar motif, trimmed with thick, supple fringe and a pair of triangular suspensions decorated with red stroud and white beads.

Charles Alston Messiter, F.R.G.S. (1841-1920), Barwick House, Somerst, England
Sold Sotheby's New York, April 1983, lot 434
John W. Painter Collection, Cincinnati
Private Santa Fe Collection
Acquired from Grimmer-Roche

Cincinnati Art Museum: "A Window on the Past," Cincinnati, October 18, 2002 - March 30, 2003 

John W. Painter, A Window on the Past, Early Native American Dress from the John Painter Collection, vol. II, 2003, pl. 196