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Painted Bentwood Box
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Painted Bentwood Box
Painted Bentwood Box

Painted Bentwood Box

Date1929
Mediumcedar, paint, spruce root
DimensionsOther: 31.5 × 24.4 × 24.9 cm (12 3/8 × 9 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
ClassificationsCeremonial Objects
Paper Field ReferencesCMH VII-B-1344
Object numberHRC 01344
Descriptionsmall square box made of cedar, kerfed and pegged. base is pegged and the rim is undulating horizontal split on one side repaired with spruce root stitches. painted in red and black in a double eye corner box design on two sides and a single eye corner box design on the other two.
collected in Masset
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