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Object Number 50-69-10/32705
Display Title Parfleche trunk, painted decoration.
Descriptions
Inventory Description Rawhide box, rectangular, painted geometric designs, leather ties.
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Date 19th century
Culture
  • Fox
  • Musquakee
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Iowa
Dimensions Overall: 27.5 x 53 x 32.5 cm (10 13/16 x 20 7/8 x 12 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 14/1113
Credit Line Exchange with Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1950
Provenance
Collector National Museum of the American Indian (?)
Donor National Museum of the American Indian (11/16/1950)

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