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Bark writing
Object Number 09-8-10/75060
Display Title Bark writing
Descriptions
Object Description Bark writing
Inventory Description Drawing, painted language symbols on birch bark, perforated
Classification
  • Communication artifacts
Department Ethnographic
Date 19th century
Culture
  • Plains Cree
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Montana?
North America / Canada?
Materials Birchbark, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 22 x 21.2 x 0.1 cm (8 11/16 x 8 3/8 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 09-8-10/75060, Apost.n./o.190, mah me to bah ke / e / a e ne e oo
Provenance
Collector Rev. J. W. Millar (1895-1900 - ?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (? - 1909)

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