Birch bark, sweet grass, quills (undyed, brown, white), cotton thread

Lid: Solid white background, with unquilled 2.5" circle in centre, containing a decoration (resembling an animal, probably a porcupine) of 3-dimensional tufted quills. The decoration has three tufts, with the first two trimmed short, and the third formed with the longer hairlike quills, untrimmed and fanning out. Edges are solid-quilled, with the dark quill ends in a scalloped pattern around the circumference. Body: solid-quilled white edges.

Some artists on Manitoulin make boxes featuring porcupines, to refer back to the source of their materials. These usually incorporate the longer 'brush' quills in a 3-dimensional tufted technique. The use of these quills on this box indicate that the 'creature' is a porcupine.

Maime Migwans, box, quill. Currently at the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, A1.01.028. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 27213.

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.