Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022
Lot 12
A bark container
Estimate £100 - £200 | Hammer £120
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Description
A bark container
Northeastern North America
birch bark with fibre binding, the cover with a strap handle,
14.5cm wide, 12.5cm high. (2)
With a handwritten label - Made from Birch tree bark by red Indians, Bought back by Mary Mackenzie (nee Ballantyne) wife of Hector Mackenzie Governor of Fort William in the 1850's parents of Isobel born in Hudsons' Bay The Prince of Wales Edward VII visited them.