Carved wooden box ornamented with sea snail opercula(?); bent wood; cedar; laced at one corner.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Haida and Tlingit
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers) and Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 32 centimeters, width 30 centimeters, and length 22 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-21270; 15-21271.
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1951-1952 #1: University of California, Los Angeles (March 15, 1952–returned by 1957), and S1982-1983 #43: SFO Museum (May 24, 1983–December 7, 1983)