Birch Bark Box Decorated with Quills
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe / Chippewa)
Great Lakes Woodlands
Woodlands
about 1900-1906
Birch bark, porcupine quills, grass, and thread
Overall: 2 13/16 × 4 5/8 × 4 13/16 in. (7.1 × 11.8 × 12.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9561
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
Exhibition History
Native American Designs of the Northern Woodlands, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 20, 1995-February 9, 1997.
Publication History
Jane C. Beck, Always in season: Folk Art and Traditional Culture in Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont Council on the Arts, 1982, ill. p. 56.
Provenance
Unknown maker; acquired by Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Minnesota; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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