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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
- Passamaquoddy?
- Eastern Abenaki?
- Micmac?
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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