Box, possibly a Woman's Carrying Bag

Passamaquoddy
Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands

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about 1960

Birch bark, sweetgrass, steel nails, brass fasterner, orange plastic twine, and steel and brass tacks

Overall: 5 5/16 × 15 3/8 in. (13.5 × 39 cm)

Overall: 5 7/8 in. (15 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

160.35.14541

Geography

Place Made: Princeton, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Personal Gear: Box

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Woodlands

Not on view

Provenance

Shop on the shore of Big Lake, Pinceton, Maine; sold to Professor Alfred F. Whiting (1912-1978) for the Dartmouth College Museum, July 1960.

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