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Cup

Birchbark, stitched with spruce roots and brown and white porcupine quills. The rim reinforced with a bent twig lashed with spruce root and brown porcupine quills. Thong strap attached.

Dimensions: 95 x 85 mm.

Provenance: Dogrib, Fort Rae, Great Slave Lake.

Given by B.R. Ross, Fort Simpson, 1859.

Museum Number: National Museums of Scotland A.481.12