Box [Porcupine quill box]
Object detail
Accession number
1969.193.4
Description
Box made of porcupine quills. The base is dark-stained wood, possibly ebony, and there is a sliding lid. The sides are made from porcupine quills. Decorated with small pieces of inset shell or ivory.
Media/Materials
Collection
Credit Line
Box [Porcupine quill box], 1969.193.4. The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
Public comments
That box I believe to be made of ebony wood, the white insets are ivory & correctly it is decorated with porcupine quills. I may still own a damaged one that we kept our marjong set back in the 1950's.
- NLB Broadley posted 3 years ago.
That box I believe to be made of ebony wood, the white insets are ivory & correctly it is decorated with porcupine quills. I may still own a damaged one that we kept our marjong set back in the 1950's.
- NLB Broadley posted 3 years ago.