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Porcupine Quill Box

Box, 1880-1900, porcupine quills, birch tree bark, and pine straw, 5.125 inches high, Kate Briggs, 2011.27.84.

Box with lid made of orange, green, white, and black porcupine quills, birch tree bark, vegetable dye and pine straw. It was made by artisans of the Mi’kmaq culture, a First Nations band indigenous to Nova Scotia, one of eastern Canada’s Maritime provinces on the Atlantic.