Box and lid
Unknown people (Woodlands)
Great Lakes Woodlands
Woodlands
late 19th century
Birch tree bark and porcupine quilss
Overall: 2 7/16 × 4 1/16 in. (6.2 × 10.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26064
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Box
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Exhibition History
Montshire: Educational Program, Montshire Museum of Science, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 4-December 5, 1988.
Provenance
Collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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