Knife Case, ca. 1860

  • Cheyenne, Native American

Rawhide, buckskin and glass

  • Overall: 10 1/8 × 4 × 1/2 inches (25.7 × 10.2 × 1.3 cm)

Gift of Richard A. Pohrt, Jr. in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt

2000.31

On View

  • Native American, Level 1, South

Department

Indigenous Americas

1860s, collected at Fort C. F. Smith, Montana Territory [Crow Indian Reservation, Big Horn, Montana, USA] by a member of the construction crew

Louise Stegner (Omaha, Nebraska, USA)

1942, Richard A. Pohrt

Richard and Marion Pohrt. 2000-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier. Exh. cat., The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1994, no. 94.

Cheyenne, Native American, Knife Case, ca. 1860, rawhide, buckskin and glass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Richard A. Pohrt, Jr. in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt, 2000.31.