Calling Card Tray
Calling Card Tray
Datelate 18th century
Dimensions8 5/8 × 9 3/4 × 1 in. (21.9 × 24.8 × 2.5 cm)
MediumBirchbark, moosehair, natural dyes
ClassificationTextiles and Fiber
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number
2023.367
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 18
DescriptionBirchbark tray of rectangular form, composed of five panels, each finely embroidered with moosehair, in numerous colors, with floral sways.
Published ReferencesPhillips, Ruth B. and Dale Idiens, “‘A Casket of Savage Curiosities’: Eighteenth-century Objects from Northeastern North America in the Farquharson Collection,” Journal of the History of Collections, 1994, vol. 6, no. 1.
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