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Birch bark box with cover
Birch bark box with cover
Object Number 03-12-10/62426
Display Title Birch bark box with cover
Descriptions
Inventory Description Box, birch, oval, natural quill decoration
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Date 1700-1799?
Culture
  • Micmac
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / Nova Scotia / Annapolis County
Materials Birch , Quill Spruce root
Dimensions Overall: 6.2 x 11.7 x 0.5 cm (2 7/16 x 4 5/8 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 62426
Provenance
Owner Family of Mrs. E. J. McNeil (ca.1800)
Donor Mrs. E. J. McNeil (? - 1903)

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