Quilled Birch Bark Box
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: Cylindrical lidded birch bark box with quill decoration. Box is missing its bottom. Old museum tag with artifact says "Covered birch bark box for Loucheux Group". A later note on the tag from curator John C. Ewers in 5/1947 identifies it as not Loucheux but probably Eastern Canada. Object was used in old U.S. National Museum Loucheux mannequin lifegroup exhibit case. It is visible in front left of case in photo of the Loucheux exhibit in Plate 9, after p. 618, in the Smithsonian Annual Report for the year 1920. Per Adriana Greci Green, 3-2-2012, this object is probably from Northern Michigan, Mackinaw, Sault Ste. Marie area.
label: Notes
content: One possible catalogue number for this box may be E75968-0, which is identified as a cylindrical box made of canoe birch bark ornamented with quills, from the Chippewa of the Lake Superior area.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET14218-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box