Bark Container
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 May 1990
label: Collection Date
content: 1979
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. E. B. Kavasch
label: Donor Name
content: Sites Native Harvests
notes: label: Notes
content: OVAL BIRCH BARK BOX WITH LID. RIM AND BASE REINFORCED WITH PLANT FIBERS STITCHED TO WALLS OF BOX WITH BLACK COTTON THREAD. PLANT FIBERS AND RED DYED PORCUPINE QUILLS STITCHED TO LID WITH BLACK COTTON THREAD. WALLS DECORATED WITH FLOWER DESIGN IN RED AND GREEN DYED QUILL WORK. LID DECORATED WITH TULIP DESIGN IN RED AND GREEN DYED QUILL WORK WITH EIGHT WHITE QUILL STITCHES ON EACH SIDE. ONE WHITE QUILL IS BROKEN. MADE IN CANADA TAG ATTACHED TO BOX BOTTOM. PURCHASED FROM IROQRAFTS, OHSWEKEN, SIX NATIONS RESERVE, ONTARIO, CANADA BY MS. E. BARRIE KAVASCH FOR SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE (SITES) NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBIT IN 1979.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Algonquin
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378691
label: USNM Number
content: E430180-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Container
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 7 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 14 cm