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Eastern Woodlands Quilled Birchbark and Sweetgrass Purse,

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Eastern Woodlands Quilled Birchbark and Sweetgrass Purse,
each side of thread-sewn coiled grass, with a birchbark center panel decorated with aniline dyed porcupine stitches in stylized floral and berry motif in colors of red, purple, magenta, yellow, pink, white, green. Panel outlined with quills in same colors, rim of opening bound with dark fiber and handles of dark plant fiber, 11" long x 7.5" high. Deaccessioned from the Western Reserve Historical Society of Cleveland, Ohio. Very good, minor insect damage to one leaf, one handle detatched but fiber present.