Round lidded birch bark box decorated with wrapped spruce root and dyed porcupine quills in a checkered diamond pattern on the lid and striped diagonals on the body. Cedar base.
boxes (containers)
cedar (wood)
Box
In exhibit "Boxes: Open and Shut" at SPNEA's One Bowdoin Square Gallery May 15, 2001 to October 2001. The exhibit then traveled to Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, MA where objects were on display from November 2001 to May 6, 2002.
Mi'kmaq people (Artist)
3 (H), 4 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of William Brewster
1926.20AB
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