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Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe Odawa
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular nation(s)

"Chippewa"

Date Made or Date Range: before 1914
Materials

birchbark; second growth birchbark; sweetgrass; dark thread

Techniques or Format

A circular piece of birchbark with scalloped edges, edged with bunches of sweetgrass wrapped with dark thread.

Other Notes

probably a pair - with L-84-84

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: L-84-85
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1936
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1880-1914
GKS Reference Number: 24419
Record Creation Context

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, May 6 2010.