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Bark box
Object Number 99-12-50/53043.1
Display Title Bark box
Descriptions
Inventory Description Box, cylindrical, bark with sewn fiber triangular pattern at rim, ringed fiber base
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Seminole?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Materials Bark, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions Overall: 28 x 19 x 20.2 cm (11 x 7 1/2 x 7 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53043.1
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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