Trunk

Museum number:
2-66128
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020066128
Accession number:
Acc.3445
Description:
Rawhide. Rectangular with lid, made from single piece of rawhide stitched at four sides with leather thongs over cloth strips. Decorated with painted curvilinear design in red, blue, yellow and green.
Donor:
Betty Ann Gruberg
Collection place:
Northeastern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northeast
Culture or time period:
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe)
Collector:
George M. Firestone
Collection date:
1927-1933
Object type:
ethnography
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 15.5 centimeters, length 39 centimeters, and width 27.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: "Parfleches and Other Rawhide Articles", Denver Art Museum, Leaflet 77-78, December, 1936, p. 109.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Trunk, accession number 2-66128, described as Rawhide. Rectangular with lid, made from single piece of rawhide stitched at four sides with leather thongs over cloth strips. Decorated with painted curvilinear design in red, blue, yellow and green.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Trunk, accession number 2-66128, described as Rawhide. Rectangular with lid, made from single piece of rawhide stitched at four sides with leather thongs over cloth strips. Decorated with painted curvilinear design in red, blue, yellow and green.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Trunk, accession number 2-66128, described as Rawhide. Rectangular with lid, made from single piece of rawhide stitched at four sides with leather thongs over cloth strips. Decorated with painted curvilinear design in red, blue, yellow and green.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trunk, accession number 2-66128, described as Rawhide. Rectangular with lid, made from single piece of rawhide stitched at four sides with leather thongs over cloth strips. Decorated with painted curvilinear design in red, blue, yellow and green.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trunk, accession number 2-66128, described as Rawhide. Rectangular with lid, made from single piece of rawhide stitched at four sides with leather thongs over cloth strips. Decorated with painted curvilinear design in red, blue, yellow and green.

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