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Object Number
2018.18.3
Display Title
Mokuk
Descriptions
Object Description
Covered birchbark mokuk with spruce root stitching, etched with moose, bear and floral elements
Inventory Description
Box, rectangular birchbark mokuk, fitted flat lid, spruce root stitching, etched with moose, bear and floral designs, bentwood rim
Classification
- Box
Department
Ethnographic
Date
c. 1940s-1950s
Culture
- Cree
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
Materials
Birchbark , Spruce root
Dimensions
Overall: 23.5 × 40 × 21 cm (9 1/4 × 15 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2018.18.3
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
(11/14/2018)
Donor
Donated by
William A. Turnbaugh Ph.D.
(11/14/2018)
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