From card: "The basket carries a floral design on top and sides. Made by using white and yellow porcupine quills. Embroidered."It is possible that this object has the same provenance/was acquired in the same place as the small bark canoe E379948, as both artifacts are listed in the accession file and on their cards as Montagnais from Quebec. Written on E379948 in old handwriting: "Chicoutimi, Chateau Saguenay, made by Montagnais Indians"; there also appears to be a price marked of "25." Chicoutimi is a town name, which is now part of Saguenay, Quebec. Chateau Saguenay was the name of a tourist hotel, built in 1898. Per Adriana Greci Green, the style of manufacture of this box resembles Odawa/Anishinaabe or Ojibwa more than Montagnais.

OVAL BIRCH BARK BOX WITH LID. RIM AND BASE REINFORCED WITH PLANT FIBERS STITCHED TO WALLS OF BOX WITH BLACK COTTON THREAD. PLANT FIBERS AND RED DYED PORCUPINE QUILLS STITCHED TO LID WITH BLACK COTTON THREAD. WALLS DECORATED WITH FLOWER DESIGN IN RED AND GREEN DYED QUILL WORK. LID DECORATED WITH TULIP DESIGN IN RED AND GREEN DYED QUILL WORK WITH EIGHT WHITE QUILL STITCHES ON EACH SIDE. ONE WHITE QUILL IS BROKEN. MADE IN CANADA TAG ATTACHED TO BOX BOTTOM. PURCHASED FROM IROQRAFTS, OHSWEKEN, SIX NATIONS RESERVE, ONTARIO, CANADA BY MS. E. BARRIE KAVASCH FOR SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE (SITES) NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBIT IN 1979.

"DRAWING SHADOWS TO STONE": PHOTOGRAPHING NORTH PACIFIC PEOPLES (1897-1902) (AMNH, NEW YORK, NY, USA, 1997)

"DRAWING SHADOWS TO STONE": PHOTOGRAPHING NORTH PACIFIC PEOPLES (1897-1902) (AMNH, NEW YORK, NY, USA, 1997)