Octagonal Birch Bark Box
Unknown people (Woodlands)
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
early 20th century
Birch bark, black thread, and porcupine quills
Overall: 1 5/8 × 3 in. (4.2 × 7.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Emily W. and George H. Browne
42.12.8517
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Box
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, on bottom: NL $1.00
Exhibition History
The Arts of Native America, The Eastern Woodland: Algonkian and Iroquois, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Anthropology and History Collections, East Gallery, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 6-November 11, 1979.
Provenance
Collected by George H. Browne (1857-1931) and Emily Robbins Webster Browne (1861-1942), Cambridge, Massachusetts; given (by Miss Ellen A. Webster, Emily Browne's sister) to present collection, 1942.
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