Tobacco Box
2003-43-71A
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-71A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Orochi |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Birch Bark | Paint | Plant Fiber |
| Technique | Incised | Sewn | Painted |
| Description | Birchbark box and lid; bottom made of one piece of birchbark cut, folded, and sewn with vegetable fiber and reinforced with birchbark pieces; lid made of one piece of birchbark, cut folded, and sewn with vegetable fiber and reinforced with birchbark pieces, further secured with incised birchbark piece applied to lid, incised in spiral motif. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.71a,b - Other Number | 74-1-55a,b - Other Number | 354/10 - Other Number | 96 (Russian inventory number) - Other Number |
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