Anishinaabe (Chippewa, Ojibwe)
Box with lid decorated with porcupine quills
Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwe), 1899
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Anishinaabe (Chippewa, Ojibwe)
Box with lid decorated with porcupine quills
Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwe), 1899
Physical Qualities
Birch bark, porcupine quill, thread, pigment, 1 15/16 × 3 1/8 in. (5 × 8 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Carol F. Jopling, Washington, D.C.
Object Number
1999.180
Box with lid decorated with porcupine quills.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1999; Carol F. Jopling, Baltimore, Family acquisition c. 1900 or earlier.
Ruth B. Phillips, "Quilled Bark from the Central Great Lakes: A Transcultural History," in "Studies in American Indian Art: A Memorial Tribute to Norman Feder," Christian F. Feast, ed., Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001, 118-131.
Inscribed: Jopling label #5
