Beautiful Ojibwe Porcupine Quill and Birch Bark Box wooden tower and love his little cap

and love his little cap and crossed ankles dangling under the table

A leather pull on the top with scalloped edge matches

I believe these date to the Civil War era

adding the note below: "excuse error entirely due to direction of thoughts

New York and printed by The New York Lithographing Co

Beautiful Ojibwe Porcupine Quill and Birch Bark Box wooden tower and love his little capI 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