This is an excellent Blackfeet Elk Antler quirt with beaded strap and harness leather strips all dating to the early-1900's to mid-1900's. The piece exhibits an older large Rocky Mountain Elk antler horn with an old strap done on old trade canvas clothe with old red stroud central lining done in early glass trade seed beads in a classic Blackfeet Northern Plains geometric pattern. The beadwork shows early glass trade seed beads with colors of greasy blue, chalk white, butterscotch yellow, cobalt. The end shows a wood pinned whip section of thick old harness saddle trade leather which is wrapped in wool red trade clothe tied with Indian tanned hide and having fringes in white Ermine hides and ribbons. The quirt measures overall 48 inches in length. The antler itself is about 16 inches long and the strap is about 31 inches long along the outside by 1.75 inch wide strap.