Micmac and Ottawa
Oval lidded box
Micmac or Ottowa, 1900-1932
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Physical Qualities
Birch bark, wood, porcupine quills, nails, thread, red, brown, green, orange and purple pigments; stone, shell, clay, rawhide, tin, 7 7/8 × 5 1/8 × 4 5/16 in. (20 × 13 × 11 cm.)
Credit Line
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Object Number
1991.37a-n
Lid has quill design; white ground, central circle with design of white in center. One orange strip, green triangles radiating from center, red X's around circumference. Fan design with orange, purple and white lines flank two sides of circle. Box has quill design of chevrons in brown, green, white, red, white, brown. White triangles outlined in red at top, red triangles outlined in brown at bottom. Rim design is brown and white checks. Box contains 7 stones, one shell fragment with a hole drilled in the narrow end, one pot shard, 3 pieces of rawhide with tin tinklers on one end.
"Book Review: Micmac Quillwork," "American Indian Art Magazine," Autumn 1983, vol. 9, pp. 72-75.
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.
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.
