Box

Museum number:
2-13589a,b
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.641
Description:
a) Box made of birchbark; wood base; elliptical, covered with elaborate design (zigzag) of porcupine quills in red, brown, yellow, purple, green and blue. b) Lid. Multicolored geometric designs in quillwork on white ground; sweetgrass inside rim; split cedar root wrapping around edge.
Donor:
Margaret Corinne Sinclair
Collection place:
Nova Scotia, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Nova Scotia
Culture or time period:
Micmac
Collector:
Margaret Corinne Sinclair
Collection date:
1929
Taxon:
Erethizon dorsatum
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers)
Accession date:
1929
Context of use:
Tourist souvenir.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
b)— length 22.7 centimeters, a)— length 22.8 centimeters, and a)— width 14.2 centimeters
Comment:
Made by: Micmac women. References: see Orchard, "The Technique of Porcupine-Quill Decoration Among the North Amer. Indians," Pl. XXIV, XXV.
Loans:
S1969-1970 #45: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/William S. Simmons (November 3, 1969–November 3, 1969), S1970-1971 #12: California State University, Chico (August 14, 1970–April 13, 1971), S1979-1980 #58: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/William S. Simmons (April 7, 1980–June 30, 1980), and S1981-1982 #59: University of California, Davis/Pat Charley (April 14, 1982–June 21, 1982)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-13589a,b, described as a) Box made of birchbark; wood base; elliptical, covered with elaborate design (zigzag) of porcupine quills in red, brown, yellow, purple, green and blue. b) Lid. Multicolored geometric designs in quillwork on white ground; sweetgrass inside rim; split cedar root wrapping around edge.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-13589a,b, described as a) Box made of birchbark; wood base; elliptical, covered with elaborate design (zigzag) of porcupine quills in red, brown, yellow, purple, green and blue. b) Lid. Multicolored geometric designs in quillwork on white ground; sweetgrass inside rim; split cedar root wrapping around edge.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-13589a,b, described as a) Box made of birchbark; wood base; elliptical, covered with elaborate design (zigzag) of porcupine quills in red, brown, yellow, purple, green and blue. b) Lid. Multicolored geometric designs in quillwork on white ground; sweetgrass inside rim; split cedar root wrapping around edge.

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