Birchbark Pail with Scrolling Designs
A tapering birchbark container with a flat lid, its dark brown surface covered in pale yellow scrolling and curvilinear designs incised or painted into the bark. The vessel stands on a neutral gray background, its lid edged with a fine serrated border and its sides showing fine, worn texture.
- Artist
- Penobscot
- Date
- c. 1760
- Medium
- Birchbark
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 1685 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1765).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Wirt D. Walker Fund