The lot features a 19th-century beaded and quilled awl case from the Sioux of the Northern Plains purchased from Christie's Auction in May 1994 and from a private ex-Museum and fine Native American collection from Eastern Montana. The piece exhibits tanned hide with classic 1800's glass trade seed and petit beads with a banded pattern in light blue, greasy yellow, green, semi-transparent green, Cheyenne pink. The awl case has a slide up Indian hide top with Czechoslovakian bugle trade beads on the belt tie fringes as well as double fringes on each corner of the top wrapped in quilled like red wraps with dew claw adornments on the ends. The bottom shows more red quilled like wrappings with more dew claws. Provenance: Purchased from Christie's Auction in May 1994 and from the private ex-Museum and Fine Native American collection in Eastern Montana. Measures overall 20-inches long with belt tie and fringes, the body itself is 8-inches long without ties and fringes by 1.5-inches wide. Soft hides with nearly all the beadwork still present.