Box, possibly a Woman's Carrying Bag
Passamaquoddy
Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
about 1960
Birch bark, sweetgrass, steel nails, brass fasterner, orange plastic twine, and steel and brass tacks
Overall: 5 5/16 × 15 3/8 in. (13.5 × 39 cm)
Overall: 5 7/8 in. (15 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
160.35.14541
Geography
Place Made: Princeton, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Box
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Provenance
Shop on the shore of Big Lake, Pinceton, Maine; sold to Professor Alfred F. Whiting (1912-1978) for the Dartmouth College Museum, July 1960.
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