The slightly curved steel blade of the knife is bound to the well-round bone (?) handle by a worked sheet of brass. This brass is finished in a series of little points at the handle end and incised with series of simple lines, both parallel and diagonal, to form bands. The sheath for this knife is worked with porcupine quills in purplish brown, orange, yellow, and natural white in a motif of connecting diamonds. The body of the sheath has an orange triangle with "V" shaped outlines at the very bottom, below the pattern of connected diamonds. The panel or cuff is striped. Many metal cones are suspended from the bottom of the cuff and one single cone, or tinkler is suspended from the bottom tip of the sheath. These 'tin-tinklers' on the panel were once quill-wrapped.The leather is thread sewn so that beige ribbon adorns the panel or cuff.

Pack saddle made from elk horns fastened together with buffalo hide stretched over it.

Eastern Plains. Some beads missing in the back. Some undetermined matter is inside.Each side of this small pouch is beaded with a different design.

This is a modified T-shaped pipe bowl where one side is shorter than the other. It would have a stem, possibly wooden, inserted for smoking.

Parfleche bag with brightly colored geometric designs painted on the front. Probably Crow.

Anonymous gift in memory of Dr. Harlow Brooks

This was probably a woven wrap for something like a cradle or a hairpiece.

Gift of Peter Steckler

This work bag has different geometric designs on each side-the bag is the smaller one in front. in the photo.

These bags are made from hide with long fringes on bottom and a drawstring top. They were possibly fashioned from leggings. The beadwork may actually be Cheyenne and an Osage may have purchased or traded and then reworked them.