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Bentwood Box

Date1919

Mediumcedar, paint, opercula shells, oakum

DimensionsOther: 52 × 39.5 × 39.5 cm (20 1/2 × 15 9/16 × 15 9/16 in.)

ClassificationsCeremonial Objects

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Paper Field ReferencesCMH VII-B-1273

Object numberHRC 01273

Descriptionbox of cedar, kerfed and pegged with a base now detached. decorated in red and black in a double eye box design. front edge of lid has two vertical rows of four opercula shells, edge painted red. inside of lid has been hollowed. remnants of oakum on base.
collected in Masset

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