Box Lid
2003-43-84
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 2003-43-84 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Orok |
Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
Culture Area | Siberia |
Section | American |
Materials | Birch Bark | Paint | Vegetable Fiber |
Technique | Folded | Painted | Incised | Appliqued | Sewn |
Description | Rectangular box lid made of one piece of birchbark cut, folded and sewn with vegetable fiber; edges further reinforced by cut and incised dark and painted (black) birchbark bands on exterior and undecorated bands on interior; birchbark rectangle appliqued to top is decorated with cut out and incised scroll design motifs. |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1899.1.84 - Other Number | 74-1-54 - Other Number |
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