Blackened deerskin and porcupine quills red, natural, black/ purple (no tin cones or strap)

Quillwork techniques include quilled edging, simple banding, saw tooth banding, alternate colour plaiting, simple linear twist. On back side of case there is a deer skin lace visible that is used to divide it into two pockets for the knife case.

Design patterns, alternate colour plaiting on the front are two different design. On the left there is a On the right is hourglasses alternating with diamonds. Diamonds are white (upper portion), hourglasses are alternating red and black (upper) but lower portion inverst the pattern. There is a chain link of diamonds on the centre of the upper panel forming four diamonds, with the inner row is red and the outer row is white.

Iroquois but likely Menominee (refer to Kaspericki), 18th century

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)