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Lakota Sioux Fully Beaded Sheath & Bowie Knife

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,250.00 USD
Lakota Sioux Fully Beaded Sheath & Bowie Knife
This is an excellent fully beaded knife sheath from the Lakota Sioux Native American Indians from the mid 20th century. The knife is accompanied with an exceptional large custom handmade bowie knife. The knife shows a polished aluminum and black scaled grip with brass hilt and excellent large blade. The sheath has a saddle/harness leather construction with an Indian tanned buckskin cover having a phenomenal fully beaded design in all early glass trade seed beads. The bead show colors such as chalk white, corn yellow, green, light blue, red. The sheath has beadowork across the front, sides, and back along with a long rope beaded fringe drop and two rope beaded tassels along the top. The knife shows some signs of use along the blade, but overall is in very good condition. The sheath shows little to no bead loss and very good condition. Knife is 13 1/8"L with a 8"L blade. Sheath is 22.5"L x 3 3/8"W. Excellent early piece dating to circa 1930-1960's.