Box with cover
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; possibly from the collection of Edward Wade Darbey (1872-1922, a Winnipeg, Manitoba, taxidermist and owner of an Indian curio store); purchased for MAI in 1925 in Winnipeg by anthropologist and MAI field agent William (Willem) Wildschut (1883-1955), possibly from Edward Darbey's widow, Edith H. Parker Darbey (1875-1965).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- circa 1920
- Catalog Number
- 13/7212
- Barcode
- 137212.000
- Culture/People
- Anishinaabe [Rama Reserve, Ontario]
- Possible owner
- Edward Wade Darbey, Non-Indian, 1872-1922
- Edith H. Darbey (Edith H. Parker/Mrs. Edward W. Darbey), Non-Indian, 1875-1965
- Possible seller
- Edith H. Darbey (Edith H. Parker/Mrs. Edward W. Darbey), Non-Indian, 1875-1965
- MAI agent
- William Wildschut (Willem Wildschut), Non-Indian, 1883-1955
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
- Object Name
- Box with cover
- Media/Materials
- Birchbark, porcupine quills, sweetgrass, thread, dye/dyes
- Techniques
- Bent, stitched, dyed, quill embroidered
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Place
- Mnjikaning Reserve (Rama Reserve); Simcoe County; Ontario; Canada
- See related items
- Anishinaabe [Rama Reserve, Ontario]
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
- Record ID
- NMAI_147284
