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Platter

Description

Oval platter of birch bark with the edges bound with willow and dyed goose quillwork: North America

Museum reference

A.UC.303.1

Collection

Americas

Object name

Platter

Production information

North America

Style / Culture

Indigenous North American

Materials

Birch bark, Goose quill

Physical description

Birch bark; edges bound with willow and dyed goose quill work

References

See Charles D Waterson, Collections in Context (National Museums of Scotland, 1997), p. 31

Illustrated in Cath Oberholtzer, ‘Made for Trade: Souvenirs from the Eastern Subartic’, American Indian Art 36: 2 (Spring 2011)

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