Beaded birchbark tobacco can cover

Titles: Beaded birchbark tobacco can cover (Supplied title)

Description: A beaded cover for a tobacco can, circa the mid-20th century or earlier. The beads are mounted on birchbark and secured with yarn over a wire rim. The cover also incorporates a fabric handle wound in beads. This object was donated by Daughters of the American Revolution, Mendota Chapter, and reportedly given to Carolyn Punderson's father by Minnesota Indians, possibly Dakota or Ojibwe.

Dates

• Not later than 1939 (Date object was donated to the Minnesota Historical Society.) (Creation)

Creation

• owned by: Punderson, Carolyn Eleanor

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 2042

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of the Sibley House Association of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 5 inches length
• 3 inches width
• 5 inches height

Subjects

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