Beaded Knife Scabbard/Sheath
Historical artifact -- Scabbard;Beadwork
Identifier:
B734
Description
Beaded Knife Scabbard. Thought to be Ute. The scabbard is completely beaded with blue edges, red, light blue, and dark blue triangles along the edge pointing towards the center line, and multicolored arrows pointing up the center line. The arrows alternate between light blue, pink, and dark blue, and red, yellow and light blue. Athe top of the scabbard there are two bands of design, the bottom band with a red triangle in the center with a yellow rectangle in the center. Along the outsides, there are two dark blue rectangles and a light blue triangle which points towards the bottom. The design repeats on the top band, but the center triangle is light blue and the top triangles are red. The back of the scabbard is not beaded. There are two red ties at the top and two red tassels at the bottom, one has two golden beads at the bottom.
