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Box Made of Birch Bark

Rectangular shaped object with several patterns, with an opening at the top, a loop and a lid.

Smithsonian Institution Collection, National Museum of the American Indian, catalog number 16/4962, http://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:NMAI_176886.

Birch bark was used to make canoes, containers, toys, callers, wigwams, etc.

This object was made around 1925.
From : Désert River, Outaouais; Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (Maniwaki)

Collected by anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1950) in 1929; bought by MAI from Frank Speck in 1929.