Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected in 1954 by William F. Stiles (1912-1980, MAI curator) during MAI fieldwork funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Innu [Mashteuiatsh/Pointe-Bleue, Quebec]
- Collector
- William F. Stiles (WFS), Non-Indian, 1912-1980
- Expedition sponsor
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Incorporated (Viking Fund, Inc.), 1941-
- Date created
- 1954
- Object Name
- Match box/container
- Media/Materials
- Birchbark, wood, hide thong/babiche, metal pin/pins
- Techniques
- Rolled, pegged, nailed, carved, etched
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
