Detail View: Image Archives: Carved and painted box

File Name: 
ac11519a-1
catalog number: 
AC.11519A
collection: 
Anthropology
title: 
Carved and painted box
creator: 
Scott Dressel-Martin
creator type: 
photographer
description: 
Bentwood box made by the Tlingit, a matrilineal society and indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest, used primarily for storing fish. Bentwood is wood that has been steamed and bent and left to harden into various shapes and patterns.
date: 
December 2008
date type: 
date of photograph
date: 
ca 1870-1880
date type: 
date of object
date: 
7/14/2010
date type: 
LUNA ingest
location: 
USA, Colorado, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
modified: 
no
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
1.31 mb
source: 
born digital
rights: 
Denver Museum of Nature & Science