Knife and Scabbard

Brass tacks are studded on much of this tapered leather scabbard with leather fringe at the top. There is a triangular shape cutout at the center for a belt strap. Wrapped metal wire attaches leather fringe to the leather scabbard along the top. Commercial leather scabbards and belts with brass tacks were an early trade item among the Northern Plains, Columbia River Plateau, and Eastern Great Basin Indian tribes beginning in the fur trade era.