Beaded leather awl case with geometric design / Unknown
Essay/Description
Fully beaded awl case. No accompanying awl. Front side beaded in predominately white beading with blue, red, and yellow beading in geometric design ending in yellow beaded fringe. Buck hide fringe on top.
Beaded hide awl case decorated on the front with a white beaded background in the top two thirds and a yellow beaded background in the bottom third. On the white background there is a geometric beaded design in blue and red. This is geometric design is made of a horizontal line spanning the width of the case with a smaller horizontal line attached from above with a vertical line. There is a triangle descending from each end of the long horizontal line. This design is shown twice with the one lower down being smaller. The flap has a blue and red line design and there is a row of three blue triangles where the flap meets the body. The bottom third of the main body has a beaded yellow background with blue beads in a pattern that appears to be an "m" above a "v." Attached to the bottom of the body there is a triangular shaped piece of hide with a red and white beaded stepped design. There are two strands of yellow beads attached to each bottom corner. There is yellow beading outlining the edges of the awl. There is a single hide tie on the bottom edge of the flap and two leather ties attached at the top of the back.

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