Turtle & feathers: BurntWork designs,SM wood trinket trunk -JC Polchies, Mi\'kmaq for Sale

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Turtle & feathers: BurntWork designs,SM wood trinket trunk -JC Polchies, Mi\'kmaq For Sale

$Turtle & feathers: BurntWork designs,SM wood trinket trunk -JC Polchies, Mi\'kmaq$
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Turtle & feathers: BurntWork designs,SM wood trinket trunk -JC Polchies, Mi\'kmaq:
$28.75

This wooden trunk box has a slightly curved doming lid with a swimming turtle on the top and 2 medicine feathers - each different on each side. On the front of the box is a traditional Wabanaki design, a trifoliate design set at center of a double curve. It is by J Clifton Polches, Mi\'kmaq, who has added his great burntwork art to this commercially made small wooden trinket/jewelry box. All designs are done in burntwork. This trunk/box has a nice decorative \"old\" brass front closure with back brass hinges.
Burnt work is also called pyrography - dictionary definition \"Pyrography is the art of decorating wood or other materials withburnmarks\" As a traditional art of the Wabanaki, burnt work has been used for at nearly 2 centuries and perhaps even prior to European contact... The earliest burnt work design I have seen was on a paddle was dated to 1850 and have been told of others that were even earlier. Wooden objects as well as birch bark items were sometimes decorated using the tips of burning sticks etc.
This is a small commercially purchased wooden box has had the all the burnt work designs placed on it by the Mi\'kmaq artist, J Clifton Polches. The box has an elegant embossed metal clasp on the front and a nice metal handle on the top and 2 metal hinges on the back. This wooden box is 6.5\" long, 4\" deep and 2.25\" high at the back and front edges, with the center of the domed trunk at 2.75\". It would make a great desk top box for holding pens, paper clips, erasers etc... or a wonderful jewelry/trinket box. Some of my Mi\'kmaq (USA spelling, MicMac) friends use this to store medicinal herbs for teas, or tobacco for smoking in traditional pipes - as well as cedar, sweetgrass and sage for smudging. - You can store spiritually or emotionally significant items in this too.