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Lot 126

Northern Plains Beaded Awl Case, Collected U.S. Special Agent Johnson N. High (1842-1909)

sinew-sewn and beaded using colors of back, amber, greasy blue, light blue, white, and pink; circular drops; brass bell
overall length 9 in.
third quarter 19th century

Johnson N. High (1842-1909) was born in Richland, Ohio and died in Partridge, Kansas. After serving in the Civil War, he was appointed as a US Special Agent for the Bannock and Shoshone Indians on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho Territory in 1870. Around the same time, he adopted a Paiute child named Lena Rivers High. Lena died of pneumonia at Blackfoot, Idaho in 1885. Eventually High retired from service and moved back east

Collected U.S. Special Agent Johnson N. High (1842-1909) and descended through the family

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Northern Plains Beaded Awl Case, Collected U.S. Special Agent Johnson N. High (1842-1909)

sinew-sewn and beaded using colors of back, amber, greasy blue, light blue, white, and pink; circular drops; brass bell
overall length 9 in.
third quarter 19th century

Collected U.S. Special Agent Johnson N. High (1842-1909) and descended through the family

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Northern Plains Beaded Awl Case, Collected U.S. Special Agent Johnson N. High (1842-1909)

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