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Object Number
995-29-10/73208A
Display Title
Fully-quilled wooden box with lid; geometric motif
Descriptions
Object Description
Rectangular bent wood lidded box fully covered on visible portions with decorative quillwork in multicolored and undyed (white) porcupine quills. Lid has geometric design in green, orange, blue, red, pink, yellow, and white quills, with decorative embroidered outlines and cross stitches. Sides of box have bands of colored quills: white, orange, green, red, white, blue, yellow, pink, white. Sides of lid wrapped with thin bark or wood strips, through which colored quills have been interlaced to form geometric shapes. Top edge of lid reinforced with bundle of sweet grass, sewn on with very thin bark strips. Lid lined with glued paper.
Dimensions: height with lid = 17.8 cm, height to rim = 16.8 cm, width = 17.5 cm, depth = 14.4 cm.
Inventory Description
Box, base, wood, rectangular, polychrome striped quill decoration throughout sid
Classification
- Box
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1933-1966
Culture
- Micmac
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Maine
Materials
Wood, Porcupine quill
Dimensions
Overall: 6.7 x 17.3 x 1 cm (2 5/8 x 6 13/16 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
995-29-10/73208A
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William R. Wright
(?)
Donor
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
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