Covered Birch Box
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Jun 1913
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. S E. Cummings
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Rectangular box decorated with floral designs in porcupine quills - some colored blue or red. Though all sewn with quills originally the bottom later put on with thread, which has since worn out. also. Cover which fits down over the rim, is split in the middle of the two long sides (1964). Repaired at Conservation 8/73. Had been in Div. of Am Costume, returned to Ethn. 10/64."
label: Notes
content: In 2011 Dr. Sylvia Kasprycki examined this artifact and said it is not Iroquois style. Looks more like Western Great Lakes. In 2012 Adriana Greci Green agreed that this object is Great Lakes not Iroquois style.
label: Notes
content: The bottom of the box has an inked inscription which is not really deciperable, but may perhaps say "Ella from Boyd[??]"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northeast Woodlands, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) (?)
label: Culture
content: Great Lakes Indian (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055589
label: USNM Number
content: E278190-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Container