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Knife Case

Knife Case, ca. 1890

  • Crow, Native American

Rawhide, buckskin and glass

  • Overall: 12 1/8 × 4 1/2 × 1 inches (30.8 × 11.4 × 2.5 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Mary G. and Robert H. Flint Foundation

2000.5

On View

  • Native American S130

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Details

2000-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1993, no. 129.

Crow, Native American, Knife Case, ca. 1890, rawhide, buckskin and glass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Mary G. and Robert H. Flint Foundation, 2000.5.

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