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Object Number
2017.8.53
Display Title
Miniature birchbark dish
Descriptions
Object Description
Miniature birchbark dish, signed
Inventory Description
Dish, square birchbark base, rounded twig sewn to zig-zag birchbark rim
Classification
- Basket
Department
Ethnographic
Date
Latter part of 20th century
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
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Alaska
Materials
Birchbark
Dimensions
Overall: 4 × 9 × 9 cm (1 9/16 × 3 9/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2017.8.53; THE PAW / Box 7 / Tok, Alaska 99780
Credit Line
Gift of basketry scholars and authors Sarah R. Peabody Turnbaugh '76scl (Anthropology) and William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D. '73 (Anthropology)
Provenance
Collector
Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh
Collector
William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D.
Donor
Donated by
Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh
Donor
Donated by
William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D.
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