Birch Bark Container
Dena’ina
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic
collected 1920s-1930s
Birch bark
Overall: 13 3/8 × 14 9/16 × 4 5/16 in. (34 × 37 × 11 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Doris Meltzer
163.22.15120
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Subarctic
Not on view
Provenance
Mrs. Clark, Kuskokwim, Alaska; collected by Axel Rasmussen, in the 1920's and 1930's [until his death in 1945]; Earl Stendahl; to Doris Meltzer, Meltzer Gallery, New York; given to present collection, 1963.
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