Embroidered Notebook
Embroidered Notebook
Datelate 18th century
Dimensions5 1/4 × 3 1/8 × 1/2 in. (13.3 × 7.9 × 1.3 cm)
MediumBirchbark, paper, moosehair, natural dyes
ClassificationBooks
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, by exchange
Object number
2023.366
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 18
DescriptionA notebook made of birchbark of rectangular form, the cover finely embroidered in moosehair, dyed in numerous shades, with a central circular medallion, enclosing a floral spray, flanked by additional floral elements.
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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