Vintage Porcupine Quill Birch Bark Box with Maple Leaf Motif Anishinaabe au gratin pan part of the English Old

part of the English Old Scenes

There is a gold toned H and a T at either point of the collar

The jar has google eyes and the lid is shaped so that it looks like it is smiling

but the attention to detail in the modelling and finishing of the figurine is wonderful

Vintage Porcupine Quill Birch Bark Box with Maple Leaf Motif Anishinaabe au gratin pan part of the English OldThis vintage porcupine quilldecorated birch bark box is a finely made example of Woodland Indigenous craft tradition, most likely Anishinaabe Ojibwe. The cylindrical form is built from hand cut birch bark panels, stitched and decorated with a woven sweetgrass band at the centre. The lid features a maple leaf motif, executed in naturally dyed porcupine quills arranged with symmetry. Porcupine quillwork predates beadwork in many Indigenous cultures and