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Food box
Object Number 17-62-10/87249
Display Title Food box
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Kutsem
Object Description Food box
Inventory Description Wooden box w/ lid, corrugated texture, rope wrapped around, lid curved at 1 end.
Classification
  • Box
  • Raw Material
Department Ethnographic
Date 1833-1866
Culture
  • Kwakwaka'wakw
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia / Vancouver Island / Fort Rupert
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 54 x 53 x 41.5 cm (21 1/4 x 20 7/8 x 16 5/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Provenance
Collector Lt. George Thornton Emmons (?)
Donor Lt. George Thornton Emmons (1917)

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