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Object Number 38-44-10/12774
Display Title Bark booklet with moosehair embroidery decoration.
Descriptions
Object Description Bark booklet--moosehair embroidery decoration. See additional description under Conservation report.
Inventory Description Book, bark, quill embroidered, floral/fruit motif, pink paper secured w/ ribbon
Classification
  • Accessory
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1808
Culture
  • Huron
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Additional Geographic Terms Eastern Woodlands
Materials Bark, Hair, Quill?, Paper, Thread, Birchbark, Silk ribbon, Silk thread, Hair?
Dimensions Overall: 13 x 7.9 x 0.8 cm (5 1/8 x 3 1/8 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 12774
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Henry H. Richardson in memory of Theodore Jewett Eastman, Class of 1901, A.B. 1901, M.D. 1905, 1938
Provenance
Collector Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastman (1888-1916)
Donor Mrs. Henry H. Richardson (05/02/1938)

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