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Lot 1
Sale 6422 - Native American Art
Sep 25, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$15,000 -
25,000
Price Realized
$12,800
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Lot Description
Great Lakes Black-Tanned Hide Knife Sheath and Knife, Exhibited and Published
ca 1780
sinew-sewn and quilled with double-curve motif; horn-handled knife carved with a turtle effigy
length of sheath 9 inches x width 3 inches; length of knife 8 inches
Exhibited:
1990-1992. Plains Indian Museum, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
Published:
Native American Weapons (Taylor 2001: p. 42)
A Window on the Past: Early Native American Dress from the John Painter Collection (Painter 2002: p. 44, fig. 36)
Ex Jim Hart, New Jersey (reportedly from a southern New York collection)
Ex John Painter Collection, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Emily T. and Adolphus Andrews Collection of Native American Art
This lot is located in Cincinnati.