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Bark container
Object Number 50-69-10/32703
Display Title Bark container
Descriptions
Object Description Bark container; Gift basket.
Inventory Description Bowl, birch bark, square base, round rim, sewn sides, etched floral design
Classification
  • Bowl
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • ojibway
  • Fond du Lac?
  • Southwestern Chippewa
  • Grand Portage?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Minnesota
Materials Birchbark, Fiber, Bark
Dimensions Overall: 17 x 18 x 13 cm (6 11/16 x 7 1/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50-69-10/32703; 21/ 3381
Credit Line Exchange with Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1950
Provenance
Collector National Museum of the American Indian (Unknown)
Exchange participant National Museum of the American Indian (11/16/1950)
Intermediary George Gustav Heye

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