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Box with lid
Box with lid
Number
МАЭ № 2888-90/a
Title
Box with lid
Ethnicity
Kodiak Eskimos
Collectors-person
Material
wood, paint
Dimensions
overall height 6.1 cm, height of the box 5.5 cm, diameter of the box 14 cm, diameter of the lid 14.6 cm, height of the lid 2.8 cm
Annotation
This is a box for storing food. A hunter would take a wooden box with food when he took a trip or went hunting by kayak. Unlike leather vessels it would not sink in the water
Corpus
Ethnography of America
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