Knife Case, ca. 1860

  • North American, Native American

Buffalo hide, buckskin, tin cones and glass beads

  • Overall: 19 1/8 × 4 × 1/2 inches (48.6 × 10.2 × 1.3 cm)

Gift of Thomas Pohrt in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt

2000.37

Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981]

Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)

Thomas H. Pohrt

2000-present, given 2000 to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 95.

North American, Native American, Knife Case, ca. 1860, buffalo hide, buckskin, tin cones and glass beads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Thomas Pohrt in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt, 2000.37.