Trinket Box

NA9456

From: United States of America | Alaska | Haines

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA9456
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience United States of America | Alaska | Haines
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wood | Birch
Description

Circular box and lid. The side wall is made from a single strip of wood bent around an oval base with metal nails joining the two together. The end of the side wall is pointed where it overlaps itself. A lid is made in the same style but slightly larger and shorter as to fit over the box. Undecorated.

Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1924
Other Number 47 - Other Number

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