Box

Museum number:
2-4778
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020004778
Alternate number:
x - 1174 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Carved wooden box. Cedar root stitching.
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:
Northwest Coastal People
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers) and Carvings (visual works)
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Used to hold oil. Identification of cedar root and box function by Charles Brown, June 1964.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
base— width 17.78 centimeters, height 12.7 centimeters, and base— length 21.59 centimeters
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955) and S1969-1970 #136: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (June 10, 1970–June 11, 1970)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 7 titled Box, accession number 2-4778, described as Carved wooden box. Cedar root stitching.Hearst Museum object 2 of 7 titled Box, accession number 2-4778, described as Carved wooden box. Cedar root stitching.Hearst Museum object 3 of 7 titled Box, accession number 2-4778, described as Carved wooden box. Cedar root stitching.Hearst Museum object 4 of 7 titled Box, accession number 2-4778, described as Carved wooden box. Cedar root stitching.Hearst Museum object 5 of 7 titled Box, accession number 2-4778, described as Carved wooden box. Cedar root stitching.Hearst Museum object 6 of 7 titled Box, accession number 2-4778, described as Carved wooden box. Cedar root stitching.Hearst Museum object 7 of 7 titled Box, accession number 2-4778, described as Carved wooden box. Cedar root stitching.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-4778, described as Carved wooden box. Cedar root stitching.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-4778, described as Carved wooden box. Cedar root stitching.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-4778, described as Carved wooden box. Cedar root stitching.

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