Box Made of Birch Bark
![Rectangular shaped object with several patterns, with an opening at the top, a loop and a lid.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/une-nature-qui-donne-vie_where-nature-is-life/wp-content/uploads/sites/103/2019/09/https-_americanindian.si_.edu_webmultimedia_4014_592_061.700x700.jpg.jpg)
Smithsonian Institution Collection, National Museum of the American Indian, catalog number 16/4962, http://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:NMAI_176886.
Birch bark was used to make canoes, containers, toys, callers, wigwams, etc.
This object was made around 1925.
From : Désert River, Outaouais; Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (Maniwaki)
Collected by anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1950) in 1929; bought by MAI from Frank Speck in 1929.