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Birch bark box
Object Number 09-9-10/74551
Display Title Birch bark box
Descriptions
Object Description Birch bark box with double curve motif
Inventory Description Box, birch bark, rectangular, seam lashings broken, incised geom. motif
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1860
Culture
  • Micmac?
  • Eastern Abenaki?
  • Passamaquoddy?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / Nova Scotia
Materials Birchbark
Dimensions Overall: 14.4 x 31.9 x 16.7 cm (5 11/16 x 12 9/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 74551
Provenance
Collector Unknown (?)
Donor Walter Hill (1909)

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