Box with Cover, ca. 1800

  • Canadian, Native American

Wood

  • Overall (box): 9 1/4 × 14 × 8 7/8 inches (23.5 × 35.6 × 22.5 cm) Overall (cover): 2 3/4 × 13 3/4 × 9 1/8 inches (7 × 34.9 × 23.2 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund

65.87

Department

Indigenous Americas

Inscribed in pencil, under lid: le 14 juin Carved under bottom: [glyph which looks like conjoined AE and additional mark]

purchased by Harriet Velz (Mrs. Clarence J. Velz

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) in Beaumont, Quebec, Canada

1965-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Canadian, Native American, Box with Cover, ca. 1800, wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund, 65.87.