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box, quill
box, quill
box, quill
Round 10" quill box made by Myna Toulouse of Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation. Fully-quilled, featuring an eagle swooping to catch a fish on a white background, with fancy geometric edges, and the four medicine wheel colours in various patterns.
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Birch bark, sweetgrass, quills (undyed (white, brown), dark brown, red, yellow, black), thread
Lid: Eagle (dark brown, yellow, white quills) descending to catch a fish (undyed quills), on a solid-quilled white background, within a medicine wheel (red, black, yellow, white). Both solid quilling and fancy geometric (star-diamond pattern) on the edges, and sweetgrass trim stitched with thread. Body: Both solid quilling and fancy geometric (star-diamond pattern) on the edges, and sweetgrass trim stitched with thread.
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Myna Toulouse, box, quill. Currently at the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, A1.01.049. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 25076.
Dummy GRASAC records of collections made by Lakota Preston, April 2010, items labelled and info updated by Juanita Migwans, summer 2010. Photos and item spreadsheet created June 2011 by Adrianna Greci-Green (visiting to research quill boxes in the OCF collection), Crystal Migwans (OCF curatorial assistant) and Emanuela Rossi (visiting researcher), using information from Sophie Corbiere, Kate Roy, and 2003 appraisal sheets by P.Krueger. Records edited and filled out by Crystal Migwans, June 2011.