quilled birchbark box

quilled birchbark box

quilled birchbark box

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Introduction

Round quillbox featuring flowers and stripes on a plain, solid-quilled white background.

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Nation of Origin

noted Odawa in file

Materials

birch bark, thread (white), sweetgrass, quills (purple, green, yellow, undyed white)

Dimensions: 0 × 0 × 0 mm
Current Location: National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: E418692A
Collection at Current Location: Marjorie M. Post Collection
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1981-06-16
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Marjorie M. Post
Collection Narratives and Histories

Marjorie M. Post

GKS Reference Number: 25955
Approximate Place of Origin

45.8, -83.9

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