Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of the Chichester Museum (Chichester, West Sussex, England) and said to have been acquired by the museum about 1845; acquired by William Ockleford Oldman (1879-1949, who did business as "W.O. Oldman, Ethnographical Specimens, London") in 1912 from British anthropologist and collector Harry Geoffrey Beasley (1881-1939) or British anthropologist and collector Alfred Walter Francis Fuller (1882-1961); purchased by George Heye from W.O. Oldman in 1913.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
- Previous owner
- Chichester Museum
- Possible seller
- Harry Geoffrey Beasley (Harry L. Beasley/Harry C. Beasley/H. G. Beasley), Non-Indian, 1881-1939
- Alfred Walter Francis Fuller (A.W. Fuller/A.W.F. Fuller), Non-Indian, 1882-1961
- Previous owner
- William Ockleford Oldman (W.O. Oldman/William Ockelford Oldman), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
- Seller
- William Ockleford Oldman (W.O. Oldman/William Ockelford Oldman), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
- Object Name
- Box with cover
- Media/Materials
- Birchbark, wood, porcupine quills, spruce root, dye/dyes
- Techniques
- Quill embroidered
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
