Quillwork Box
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Feb 1906
name: label: Donor Name
content: Willard S. Darling
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Circular box of birchbark with side overlaid with white, gray and dyed quills, lid with floral design. Made by Jeannette Shawnessee an Chippewa ... [woman] 93 years old. The white and gray-grown quills are natural, the other colors are aniline. The porcupine quills are sewed into holed punched in the birch bark only one stitch being taken with each quill. The quills are softend by being held in the mouth. The edge of the lid and box is bound with split spruce root with a sewing of the same to hold it on."
label: Notes
content: Harbor Springs, Michigan is located on the reservation of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jun 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Harbor Springs, Emmet County, Michigan, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
label: Culture
content: Ottawa (Odawa, Nishnaabe) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 045591
label: USNM Number
content: E237888-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Container