Beautiful Ojibwe Porcupine Quill and Birch Bark Box wooden tower Good antique condition

Good antique condition

1 5/8" deep and overall in very good condition

I believe these date to the Civil War era

with a tubular glass insert for holding a flower or two

Beautiful Ojibwe Porcupine Quill and Birch Bark Box wooden tower Good antique conditionI find quill work pretty incredible (for a long time I did not believe it was actual porcupine quills that were used) but usually the pieces that cross my path (and that I can afford) are in pretty rough shape. Indeed, while porcupine quilling is an ancient Native American art, practiced especially among East Coast and Plains tribes, the difficulty of working with the quills as well as their fragility have made it fairly rare today, largely replaced