Brichbark Box with Quill Decoration
Wendat (Huron)
First Nation
Great Lakes Woodlands
Woodlands
collected about 1900
Birch bark, porcupine quills, tan thread
Overall: 2 1/16 × 4 13/16 in. (5.2 × 12.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Colin Campbell Stewart, III, Class of 1923
52.2.12866
Geography
Place Made: Muskoka Reservation, Lake Ontario, Canada, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Box
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Zoe Elizabeth Smiley Stewart (1873-1965), Muskoka Reservation, Ontario, Canada, about 1900; given to her son, to Dr. Colin Campbell Stewart, III (1902-1961), Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1952.
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