Box with star motif on cover, c. 1970, 2 5/8 × 4 3/8 × 4 3/8 in. ( × × cm), Sweetgrass, birch bark, porcupine quills, Canada, The Anishinaabe woman artist who created this intricately adorned and finely woven basket utilized locally harvested porcupine quills, birchbark, and sweetgrass. Artists often incorporated abstraction into their work, layering quills in complex patterns and forms that reveal both technical mastery and artistic ingenuity. For more than two hundred years, Anishinaabe women sold many of their birchbark containers and baskets to non-Native people

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