- A gray cat slinks past a wooden house. There’s something a little intimidating attempting to describe.
Knife and sheath
Lakota knife and sheath – the blade is forged by hand and inserted into the handle made with red tail deer horn, at the connection there is a binding made with deer skin, at the base decoration with 19th century Venetian glass beads and a small deer hoof pendant. The sheath is made with animal skin, probably of deer tanned in the traditional way with the brain and smoked and finely decorated with Venetian glass beads of the 19th century, seams in animal tendon, probably of deer. Around the end of the 19th century.
Item code: KN04
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