Box Lid

2003-43-84

From: Siberia | Amur River

Curatorial Section: American

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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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