Container
2003-43-89
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-89 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Birch Bark | Wood | Fishskin | Hide | Vegetable Fiber |
| Technique | Folded | Sewn |
| Description | Shallow rectangular container made of several layers of birchbark cut, folded and sewn with vegetable fiber; further re-enforced with twigs along top of interior edges; loose lining of birchbark covers interior bottom and 1/3 of sides; 2 handles of vegetable fiber and fishskin at opposite corners. |
| Height | 11.4 cm |
| Length | 51.4 cm |
| Width | 25.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.89 - Other Number | 74-1-60 - Other Number |
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