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Quill ornamented box
Object Number 16-30-10/86851
Display Title Quill ornamented box
Descriptions
Inventory Description Box, birch, natural quill decoration throughout, round
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Micmac
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
North America / United States
Materials Birch, Quill
Dimensions Overall: 13.5 x 20.5 x 0.4 cm (5 5/16 x 8 1/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 86851; Belonged To/Iya Wings/Given To/IAR/Dec 3 1867.
Provenance
Collector Unknown (?)
Donor Dr. Lombard C. Jones (1916)

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