Container
2003-43-85
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-85 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Evenk |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Birch Bark | Paint | Wood |
| Technique | Folded | Painted | Appliqued |
| Description | Rectangular container made of one piece of folded birchbark; top edge reinforced with additional strips of birchbark; the entire piece is secured by wooded splints lashed over the side edges and sewn through the front and back edges; small sticks anchor the front and back lashings; the front is decorated with an applique of birchbark painted black and secured with wood splint lashings which form a geometric design. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.85 - Other Number | 74-1-53 - Other Number |
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