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box, bark
box, bark
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Introduction
A birchbark container decorated with sweetgrass. Anishinaabe, from Northern Michigan. Collected by Amos H. Gottschall. Acquired by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1936.
Nation of Maker:
Anishinaabe
Place of Origin:
Michigan (Northern Michigan), USA
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Materials
birchbark; sweetgrass; black thread
Techniques or Format
Sweetgrass edging and trim decoration and handles. There are cedar bark tassels attached to the container with thin strings made from twisted pieces of inner cedar bark.
Provenance
Current Location:
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number:
L-84-103 a-b
Date of Acquisition by the Institution:
1936
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context:
Accessioned at the Academy of Natural Sciences in May 1914
About This GRASAC Record
GKS Reference Number:
27039
Record Creation Context
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, May 5 2010.