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Title |
Trinket basket |
Description |
Round birch bark box with lid. Lid has a floral design with a three-petal, satin stitch pink flower with knotted quill center and green stem. Edge of lid is fully quilled with sawtooth edge bordering the perimeter of the lid with stripes of red/pink quills each quarter and sweetgrass edge. Base is fully quilled in natural quills with stripes of red/pink that match the lid. Written in pencil on the bottom: "60." |
Object Name |
Box, Trinket |
Year Range from |
1936 |
Year Range to |
1946 |
Collector |
St. John, D. J. |
Material |
Bark, Birch/Quills, Porcupine/Sweetgrass/Thread |
Made |
Unknown |
Used |
Household furnishings |
Owned |
St. John, D. J. |
People |
Jacobson, Adolph Jacobson, Ruth St. John, D. J. |
Subjects |
Baskets Indians of North America |
Search Terms |
Anderson's Store Basket Basket, Native American Made |
Collection |
Traditional Arts of the Anishnabek |
Accession Number |
2001.19 |