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Bentwood Box Pieces
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Bentwood Box Pieces
Bentwood Box Pieces

Bentwood Box Pieces

Date1936
Mediumcedar, baleen?, nails, oakum
DimensionsOther: 29.4 × 77.7 cm (11 9/16 × 30 9/16 in.)
Other: 19.7 × 39 cm (7 3/4 × 15 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsCeremonial Objects
Paper Field ReferencesCMH VII-B-1361
Object numberHRC 01361
Descriptiontwo pieces of a box, the larger piece is a plain slab of cedar incised lip around the edge. there are nails protruding from around the edge. bits of oakum in the edge of the incised lip. small piece from the side of a kerfed box probably not from same as first larger piece. one end beveled the other end straight. 4 pegged pieces of baleen? along the edge. not painted.
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