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Birch bark box and maple sugar.
Birch bark box and maple sugar.
Object Number 12-40-10/84248
Display Title Birch bark box and maple sugar.
Descriptions
Inventory Description Box, bark, rectangular base, sewn lid, incised geo. deco, contains maple sugar
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Menominee?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Wisconsin
Materials Maple sugar, Bark, Wood, Cotton string
Dimensions Overall: 8.4 x 5.7 x 8.7 cm (3 5/16 x 2 1/4 x 3 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 84248
Provenance
Collector Unknown (?)
Donor Mrs. Frederic Ward Putnam (1912)

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