blackened deerskin, porcupine quill (red and blue, and natural white)

Techiniques: Simple banding, simple linear twist, but used with contoured configuration to fill in braod areas of colour. Quilled edging. Visible leather lace in the back used to divide the case into two.

Descending series of double curve motifs, alternating in red and blue on the main panel of the knife case.

David is not convinced that this particular case is Menominee. There are some earlier samples in other collections that are attributed to Potawatomi but this needs to be confirmed. Museum attributed to Iroquois based on the quillwork but David suspects it maybe Potawatomi. David P. does not think it is Iroquois at all based on the quillwork that he has seen.

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)

10-15 minutes alongside other 3 knife cases.