Birch Bark Scroll, Letter
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Oct 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Walter J. Hoffman
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Birch bark. Old label: 'Letter written by a Chippewa girl to a favored lover, requesting him to call at her lodge. Explicit directions are given as to the route, and the lodge is indicated by a beckoning hand protruding from it.' Illus.: p. 133, Pl. 168, Celebrations catalogue, Smithsonian Press, 1982. Loaned to Renwick 9/17/81; returned 1983." ... continued ... see card.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 024984
label: USNM Number
content: E153145-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Scroll