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Birchbark box
Object Number 987-16-10/74359
Display Title Birchbark box
Descriptions
Object Description Birchbark box; oval shaped, open, with a wooden peg at either end
Inventory Description Box, birch bark, oblong, flat base, folded ends held w/ carved wood pins, damage
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Subarctic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Materials Birchbark, Wood
Dimensions Overall: 13 x 34.9 x 19.7 cm (5 1/8 x 13 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 987-16-10/74359
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James Hawks in memory of her husband, James Dudley Hawks II, Class of 1943
Provenance
Collector Edward Allerton Hawks (1910-1916)
Donor Mrs. James Dudley Hawks (9/23/87)

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