box
- Museum number
- Am1923,0619.3
- Description
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Box (with lid) made of bark (birch), quills.
- Dimensions
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Height: 14.80 centimetres
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Length: 21.50 centimetres
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Width: 17 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Note by Ruth Holmes Whitehead, March 1985. "Oval lidded box has wooden base, bark liner which projects above box exterior. Lid fits on over this projection. Exterior treen-pegged to base; it is a single band of bark sewn up with root, and quilled in the half-chevron motif, with the interstices between the quillwork filled with wrap-and-appliqued spruce root dyed black. The upper border of this root has designs in quillwork interweave and quillwork cross-hatch. The half-chevron motifs are striped indigo, red, green, yellow and white, with an overlay of a two-quill cross on each. The lid side is a band of bark wrapped with spruce root, with quill interweave. The lid top is an oval of birchbark, quilled in circles and semicircles, in black, orange-red, russet-gold, yellow, blue. There is 'fill' in three and two quill widths; chain stitch fill, overlay, and decorative interlock."
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good but dirty
- Acquisition date
- 1923
- Acquisition notes
- Note by Ruth Holmes Whitehead, March 1985. "Given by Miss R.Braithwaite-Balty, 1923.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1923,0619.3