DepartmentUnited States & Canada
Quillwork sewing basket
NameBasket, Sewing
Artist
Artist unrecorded
CultureAnishinaabe (Ojibwe/Chippewa)
Dateca 1925
Place madeCanada, North America
(not assigned)United States, North America
Mediumbirch bark, porcupine quills, grass, thread
DimensionsOverall: 2 3/8 x 6 5/16 x 6 5/16 in. (6 x 16 x 16 cm)
Credit LineGift of Elise S. Untermeyer, Museum of International Folk Art
Object numberA.1982.17.1
DescriptionSewn, dyed. Lidded box of birch bark with porcupine quill decoration. Each of 6 surfaces made of 2 thicknesses of bark with edges and seams bound with bundles of grass sewn to bark and to each other. Sides and lid border of brown.
c. 1890
c. 1940
1900-1925
c. 2014