Salt Box
2003-43-69
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-69 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Birch Bark |
| Technique | Sewn | Incised |
| Description | Flat rectangular salt box consisting of single piece of birchbark folded and sewn on three sides with vegetable fiber stitches; entire surface is incised with scroll motif; carried on belt; small pouring spout. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.69 - Other Number | 24 (Civic Center, 1957) - Other Number | 15 (Russian inventory number) - Other Number | N85 - Other Number |
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