Tobacco Box
2003-43-71A
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-71A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Orochi |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Birch Bark | Paint | Plant Fiber |
| Technique | Incised | Sewn | Painted |
| Description | Birchbark box and lid; bottom made of one piece of birchbark cut, folded, and sewn with vegetable fiber and re-enforced with birchbark pieces; lid made of one piece of birchbark, cut folded, and sewn with vegetable fiber and re-enforced with birchbark pieces, further secured with incised birchbark piece applied to lid, incised in spiral motif. |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.71a,b - Other Number | 74-1-55a,b - Other Number | 354/10 - Other Number | 96 (Russian inventory number) - Other Number |
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