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InscriptionsInside a note in pencil on bark scrap: "The day I got my billy boots/ May 8th 1954/ Cynthia de Ste. Croix/ Age nine/ At the yellow door (Montreal folk-song center)"
Date
1954
Medium / Technique
Birch bark, sweetgrass, porcupine quill, cotton thread
Dimensions3.6 x 10.5 x 9.5 cm
ClassificationDistribution & Transportation Objects - Containers
CultureIndigenous: Abenaki
Geocultural Area
Eastern Woodlands
Origin
Odanak?, Quebec?, Canada
Object NumberUA33.1-2
CollectionMcCord
CreditGift of Mrs. Austin de Sainte-Croix
Status
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