Materials

Porcupine quills (undyed (white), green, orange, pink, blue), birch bark, sweetgrass, cotton thread (blue, green)

Motifs and Patterns

Lid: Pink lily and orange tulip on white background, with blue butterflies on white around the edge. Body: blue and white fancy geometric around edges.

Additional Context

Ida uses certain motifs when making gifts for each of her children, and Sophie (with a springtime birthday) generally receives flowers and butterflies.

Dimensions: 0 × 0 × 3 in

Condition: Excellent.

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Written on note inside box.

Current Location: Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, M'Chigeeng First Nation

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: grasac_3422

Collection at Current Location: Quill Art by Ida Toulouse - Collection of Sophie Corbiere

Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Ida Toulouse

Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 2005

Collection Narratives and Histories

Sophie Corbiere recieved a number of quill boxes as gifts from her mother, Ida Toulouse, who often made them for family birthdays or occasions.

Related items in the GKS: box, quill box, quill box, quill box, quill box, quill box, quill box, quill box, quill box, quill box, quill box, quill box, quill box, quill box, quill

Related language items in the GKS: gahǫhsraˀ

GKS Reference Number: 25345

How to Cite this Item

Ida Toulouse, box, quill. Currently at the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, grasac_3422. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip in June 2011; GRASAC item id 25345.

Record Creation Context

Record created June 2011 at the same time as the OCF quillbox collection was entered in the GKS. Adrianna Greci-Green was at the OCF to research quill boxes in the collection. Sophie Corbiere offered to show examples from her collection as well, and gave permission to enter them in the GKS.