Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Birger Roos; acquired by MAI through an exchange with Birger Roos in 1971.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Abenaki (Abnaki)
- Previous owner
- Birger Roos, Non-Indian
- Date created
- circa 1900
- Object Name
- Box with cover
- Media/Materials
- Birchbark, sweetgrass, spruce root
- Techniques
- Folded, stitched, etched
- Dimensions
- 15.8 x 15.8 x 15.5 cm
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
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