Trinket Basket
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- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- bark; quill; grass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0173
- Description
- A birchbark box sewn together from separate pieces of bark, lid fitting flush over diameter of box, grass braiding at seams sewn onto bark. Decorated with natural and pink quills in floral motifs. Very fragile, thread rotted, 20% quill loss, lid liner of thinner bark loose, base soiled.
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- Title
- Trinket Basket
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- bark; quill; grass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 9.0 cm
- Description
- A birchbark box sewn together from separate pieces of bark, lid fitting flush over diameter of box, grass braiding at seams sewn onto bark. Decorated with natural and pink quills in floral motifs. Very fragile, thread rotted, 20% quill loss, lid liner of thinner bark loose, base soiled.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0173
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