Blackened deerskin, porcupine quill, 3 metal cones pendants, maybe brass, (there was a fourth cone), neck strap made of wool yarn that is green and red.

Strap is heddle woven, alternating green and red. Porcupine decoration, light red, white (natural) and dark purple (supposed to be black). Simple banded quill technique, simple linear twisted. Alternate colour plaited along the top band. Three narrowing bands of the simple banded quillwork in the centre flanked by simple linear twisted curving patterns. Quill edging technique on the sides.

Geometric pattern consisting of panels of alternating colour. Three boxes against a red field. No discernible images, i.e., hourglasses or diamonds, etc.

Catalogued as Iroquois but recent research by Sylvia Kaspericki [spell surname?] is Menominee due overall size of the knife case. Also the variety of quill techniques.

Cory Willmott, Alan Corbiere, Adrianna Grecci Green and David Penney conducted research on site at the Peabody Museum for Archaeology and Ethnology in July 2007 with help from Susan Haskell and Patricia Capone of the PMAE. Cory Willmott's research was funded by a grant from the American Philosophical Society. Al Corbiere was supported through Ruth Phillips's SSHRC Canada Research Chair Funding. An internal grant from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville provided Cory with an RA, Ceara Horsley, for 2009 and 2010 to work on GRASAC data entry. (CW & CH)

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