Monthly Archive: November, 2018

Penn Museum Blog | Lady Franklyn’s Quilled Mi’kmaq Box – Penn Museum

Penn Museum Blog | Lady Franklyn’s Quilled Mi’kmaq Box – Penn Museum Top of the birchbark box showing the eight-pointed star motif. Photograph by Margaret Bruchac. The original Museum inventory card identified this box as “Huron;” in 1991, that was corrected to reflect its Micmac—or, in the more culturally accurate spelling, Mi’kmaq—origins. Birch trees are abundant in both Huron and...