A knife sheath made of smoked moose skin sewn with bird quill with a metal chape

The sheath would have been used by trappers and indigenous people in sub-Arctic North America.

The knife forms part of a collection of ethnographic material made by Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878). Back took part in three overland journeys to explore the north coast of America in 1819-22, 1825-27 and 1833-35. He travelled north via the network of rivers and lakes on the Canadian Shield stopping at Hudson Bay Company trading posts where he had the opportunity to acquire this type of material.

Object Details

ID: AAA2641
Collection: World Cultures
Type: Knife sheath
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1819-1834; 1819-34
Exhibition: The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire; Trade and Commerce
People: Back, George
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Greenwich Hospital Collection
Measurements: Overall: 610 mm x 80 mm x 20 mm
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