blackened deer hide, porcupine quills (red, natural white), metal cones, nettle fiber ties attached to cones

front and back stitched together with quills; quill edging wrapped around two-ply twisted nettle cord. Two pieces of blackened hide, front and back. Neck strap missing

face of knife case decorated with 3 lanes of simple-banded quill applique edged with single quill.

David Penney dates this knife case as 1775 - 1800 and that it is likely Iroquois construction, likely Seneca.

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)