Chest
39-18-23
From: North America
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 39-18-23 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Ojibwa |
| Provenience | North America |
| Culture Area | Northeast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Birch Bark | Quill | Wood |
| Description | Fine old trunk-shaped box. Bottom and 4 sides of base, and 4 sides of cover of thin wood. All covered with birch-bark; cover, convex in one plane like old trunk, of bark only. Cover attached by hinges. Completely covered with geometric and mainly rectilinear designs in dyed porcupine quill. Many colors, very much faded. Many quills missing and box broken. |
| Height | 18.8 cm |
| Length | 25.5 cm |
| Width | 20 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Robert Frazier, 1939 |
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