Box

Museum number:
2-3877
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020003877
Alternate number:
23 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Small, cube-shaped, wooden box with fitted lid and decorated with geometric patters in red. Red edges on box and red triangles on cover. Bound with strings. Bentwood.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
British Columbia, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; British Columbia
Culture or time period:
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 6.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. 2-28880. See Boas, F., "Primitive Art", (Dover reprint), p. 282, fig. 293.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Box, accession number 2-3877, described as Small, cube-shaped, wooden box with fitted lid and decorated with geometric patters in red. Red edges on box and red triangles on cover. Bound with strings. Bentwood.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Box, accession number 2-3877, described as Small, cube-shaped, wooden box with fitted lid and decorated with geometric patters in red. Red edges on box and red triangles on cover. Bound with strings. Bentwood.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Box, accession number 2-3877, described as Small, cube-shaped, wooden box with fitted lid and decorated with geometric patters in red. Red edges on box and red triangles on cover. Bound with strings. Bentwood.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-3877, described as Small, cube-shaped, wooden box with fitted lid and decorated with geometric patters in red. Red edges on box and red triangles on cover. Bound with strings. Bentwood.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-3877, described as Small, cube-shaped, wooden box with fitted lid and decorated with geometric patters in red. Red edges on box and red triangles on cover. Bound with strings. Bentwood.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-3877, described as Small, cube-shaped, wooden box with fitted lid and decorated with geometric patters in red. Red edges on box and red triangles on cover. Bound with strings. Bentwood.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-3877, described as Small, cube-shaped, wooden box with fitted lid and decorated with geometric patters in red. Red edges on box and red triangles on cover. Bound with strings. Bentwood.

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