Native American Indian artifact from the Warnock collection - Assiniboine - Fort Belknap Case

Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708560

Category: Case - Gun Case

Region: Plains

Tribe: Assiniboine - Fort Belknap

Period: 1875-1900 - ca. 1895

Materials: Native tanned deerskin; multi-colored glass seed beads; red wool trade cloth; thread sewn.

Description: Gun case is decorated at butt end with large beaded panel- diamond and triangles connect against a white bead background. Similar designs and colors are used on the long bead panel at the muzzle end.

Condition: Excellent

Dimensions: Length 40 inches 101 cm; Didth 6.5 inches 16.5 cm.

Provenance:

The Forked Stick, a Gros Ventre Indian who has been photographed with this gun case. Fort Belknap Indian Reservation John T. Kelly Collection Jim Aplan, Midland, South Dakota Lessard Collection- SD 574 Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.