Birch Bark Cup

Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands

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early 20th century

Birch bark, wood, and iron nails

Overall: 3 1/4 × 3 3/16 in. (8.2 × 8.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Emily W. and George H. Browne

42.12.8516

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Food Service

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Woodlands

Not on view

Exhibition History

The Arts of Native America, The Eastern Woodland: Algonkian and Iroquois, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Anthropology and History Collections, East Gallery, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 6-November 11, 1979.

Provenance

Collected by George H. Browne (1857-1931) and Emily Robbins Webster Browne (1861-1942), Cambridge, Massachusetts; given (by Miss Ellen A. Webster, Emily Browne's sister) to present collection, 1942.

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