Box Lid
53-1-27B
From: United States of America | Maine | Washington County (Maine) | Pleasant Point Reservation
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 53-1-27B |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Passamaquoddy |
Provenience | United States of America | Maine | Washington County (Maine) | Pleasant Point Reservation |
Culture Area | Northeast Culture Area |
Locus | near Eastport |
Date Made | ca. 1890 |
Section | American |
Materials | Birchbark | Wood | Sweetgrass |
Description | Small, square. Bottom is wood, sides are joined to bottom with small wood pegs. Edges of box and of lid are laced over grass binding. Lid fits flush with box; under side of lid is a piece of cardboard. First design panel shows 2 figures in canoe; second shows moose (?) apparently running in water (?); third has 2 crossed paddels and fourth 2 trees. Lid shows moose or deer under tree, within a frame of simple 'V's. All designs incised. Identifications by donor is on basis of similarity between this and 53-1-25; he believes it to have been made also by Tomah Joseph. In original owner's possession "for many years". |
Height | 6.5 cm |
Length | 16.3 cm |
Width | 15.4 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Samuel W. Fernberger, 1953 |
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