Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by George Heye from an unknown source in 1914.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
- Date created
- 1840-1870
- Object Name
- Box with cover
- Media/Materials
- Birchbark, porcupine quills, dye/dyes, conifer root, cotton thread
- Techniques
- Quill embroidered, dyed, stitched, wrapped
- Dimensions
- 16.50 x 15.00 x 15.70 cm
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
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