Container
2003-43-28
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-28 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Birch Bark | Hide | Silk | Paint | Wood | Plant Fiber |
| Technique | Sewn | Embroidered | Woven | Painted | Dyed |
| Description | Circular container consisting of straight sided walls of wood decorated with hide, silk and vegetable fiber stitches. Drawstring top of hide. Base of hide and birchbark. Entire surface decorated with bands of dyed and painted hide, silk and vegetable fiber in red, black and white, hide tassels along top of sides. Drawstring top decorated with geometric designs in blue and red. |
| Height | 24.2 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 31 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.28 - Other Number | 74-1-151 - Other Number |
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