Box; Round, cedar bark with porcupine quill; dyed quills on lid form flower design in red and green, grass bundles stitched with black cotton thread around edge of lid and bottom; quills broken and missing. “Cree, Canada” printed in ink on bottom. A -bottom height 5.2 cm, diameter 6.5 cm; B-- lid height 3.5 cm., diameter 7.0 cm.
Donor:
Charles M. Keller, Don Crabtree, Francoise Bordes, and John Desmond Clark
Collection place:
Canada
Culture or time period:
Cree
Taxon:
Erethizon dorsatum
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1969
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
This object record was created because location data had been entered into the PHOEBE database without a corresponding object record. (J. Meehan 6/2003) Material and techniques: cedar bark, porcupine quills, dyed and natural, grass, cotton thread, paper